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Gold Standard Framework (GSF)
The GSF is a framework to enable a gold standard of care for all people nearing the end of their lives. It is concerned with helping people to live well until the end of life and includes care in the final year of life for people with any end stage illness.
GSF in care homes programme.
This is a three tier programme whose aims are:-
- To improve the quality of life for people nearing the end of life in care homes.
- To improve collaboration between care homes , GP’s/Primary Care teams and specialist palliative care teams and
- To reduce the number of admissions to hospital in the last stages of life and enable more to die peacefully in the care home.
Evaluation of the programme to date has shown improved quality of care, improved staff confidence, a 12% decrease in hospital admissions and an 8% decrease in hospital deaths.
The Gold Standard Framework award has been achieved by a number of Warwickshire homes and is applicable to both nursing and residential homes. Those holding award are indicated in the care homes search.
“One of the ways we can measure ourselves as a society and as a healthcare system is in the way we care for our weakest, including our dying patients. We must regard care of the dying therefore, as a measure of our success and not our failure, within the NHS.Despite many examples of excellence, good care for the dying in this country is still very much a matter of luck. Using the Gold Standard Framework to improve care in the community is one of the building blocks on which we can develop a comprehensive and reliable national end of life care strategy, and so reduce the element of luck, and enable all to receive the best quality care at the end of their lives.”
Dr Keri Thomas – NHS National Clinical Lead for Palliative Care
More details available at: http://www.goldstandardsframework.nhs.uk/
