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Enabling a gold standard of care for all people nearing the end of life

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Improving care for all people near the end of life provided by frontline generalist staff in any setting.

The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) is a systematic evidence based approach to optimising the care for patients nearing the end of life delivered by generalist providers. It is concerned with helping people to live well until the end of life and includes care in the final years of life for people with any end stage illness in any setting.

The National GSF Centre CIC is the national training and coordinating centre for all programmes, enabling generalist frontline staff to provide quality care for people nearing the end of life, whatever their illness, wherever the setting. It aims to support best implementation of GSF in all settings, using a common framework and toolkit of resources.

GSF improves the quality, coordination and organisation of care in primary care, care homes and acute hospitals. This enables more patients to receive the type of care they want, in their preferred place, with greater cost efficiency through reduced hospitalisation.

Find out more by clicking on the relevant link or contact us at the National GSF Centre.
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GSF Annual Conference June 2010 - Celebrating Good Practice

GSF is about....

  • Enabling generalists and improving the confidence of generic staff
  • Organisational system change - the right care at the right time for the right patient
  • Patient led focussed on meeting the needs of patients, families and carers
  • Care for all those with any end stage condition, non-cancer and cancer
  • Pre-planning care in the final year or so of life, proactive rather than reactive care
  • Care closer to home - decreasing hospital admissions and deaths
  • Cross boundary care and in all settings - care homes, hospitals, hospices etc

A framework to enable a gold standard of care for all people nearing the end of life

"Every organisation involved in providing end of life care will be expected to adopt a co-ordination process, such as the GSF"
Department of Health End of Life Care Strategy 2008

"The GSF is one of the most significant developments in the improvement in end of life care since Dame Cicely Saunders founded the hospice movement."
Penny Hansford Director of Nursing, St Christopher Hospice London

"GSF is less about what you know and more about what you do and how you do it, to ensure the right thing happens at the right time for the right patient"
GP West Midlands

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