Care Homes

Library of Articles, Posters and other useful information related to Care Homes

• GSF in Care Homes Briefing Paper June 2009
• Overview of the GSF in Care Homes Training Programme
• GSF Care Homes Accreditation Process
• Accredited Database
• Why choose the GSF Care Homes training Programme
• Factsheet 6: Paramedics/Ambulance

Articles

• Programme 'a rigorous but reawarding process' Stobbart-Rowlands M, Caring News Pg 32, 19 Oct 2010
• Going for gold: be recognised for excellent end of life care, Nursing & Residential Care, Octobery 2010, Vol 12, No 10
• A gold standards case study, Nursing & Residential Care, October 2010, Vol 12, No 10
• Measuring quality improvements in end-of-life care: the ADA audit tool. K Thomas, C Clifford. European Journal of Palliative Care, Vol. 17, No. 5, 232–236 (2010)
• Can GSF Resuscitate your Business? CMM September 2010, Pg 25-26, Tanner T. At a time when the public purse is being squeezed and business is harder to come by, could the Gold Standards Framework prove a valuable differentiating factor from your competitors? Tom Tanner discusses how the programme can improve business and service standards.
• Evaluation Effectivess of the GSFCH and LCP in Care Homes, Watson J, Hockley J, Murray S, End of Life Care, 2010, Vol 4, No 3
• The GSF Competency Document. Sawkins N, Bawn R, End of Life Care Journal, 2010, Vol 1, No 2 Pg 58-59
• EOLC Journal – ‘Going for Gold’: GSF in Care Homes Training Programme, 2009, Vol 3, No 1
• EOLC Journal – Update from National GSF Centre, 2008, Vol 2, No 3
• Alistair Hewison, Frances Badger, Collette Clifford, Keri Thomas Delivering 'Gold Standards' in end of life care in care homes: a question of teamwork? © 2009 The Authors, Journal Compilation © Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 18 1756-1765 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.02613.x
• Summary of Evidence of Effectiveness for Gold Standards Framework Care Homes Training Programme
• Phase 2 Evaluation Executive summary report
• Stobbart-Rowlands M, Brewster H (2010) Gold Standards Framework training in care homes. Primary Health Care. 20, 2 22-25
• Gold Standards Framework: Improving Community Care, Hansford P, Meehan H, End of Life Care Journal, 2007, Vol 1, No 3
• How to Improve Treatment in Care Homes, T Griffin, GP Medeconomics, 15 Jan 2009 page 54
• An evaluation of the implementation of a programme to improve end-of-life care in nursing homes, F Badger, C Clifford, A Hewison and K Thomas, Palliat Med 2009; 23; 502 originally published online May 28, 2009; DOI: 10.1177/0269216309105893
• Raising Standards for Elderly People Dying in Care Homes article Reproduced by kind permission of the European Journal of Palliative Care and held under copyright by them (European Journal of Palliative Care)

Abstracts

• Badger F, Clifford C, Thomas K, Plumridge G, Hewison A, Shaw K Improving End of Life care in care homes in England: An evaluation. Budapest 10th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care Conference on GSF, 4 abstracts June 07.
• Thomas K, Badger F, Clifford C, Shaw K, Hewison A Badger F, Clifford C, Shaw K, Hewison A Analysing End of Life care in care homes: After Death Analysis tool. Budapest 10th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care Conference on GSF, 4 abstracts June 07.
• Journey’s End - A National Programme to Improve the End of Life Care in Nursing Homes across England – Gold Standards framework in Care Homes (GSFCH). Montreal Palliative Care conference Canada, 2 abstracts Sept 06

Evaluations and Reports

• University of Birmingham Phase 2 Evaluation Executive summary report
• Badger F, Clifford C, Plumridge G, Hewison A, Thomas K. Using the Gold Standards Framework in Care Homes: An Evaluation of the Phase 2 programme. Report to Macmillan Cancer Support from School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, 2007
• Keri Thomas, Helen Meehan and Karen Maryon, Gold Standards Framework Programme Central team, Birmingham Report on the introduction of GSF into 12 Care Homes in the pilot phase 1 April to December 2004 March 2005

Posters

• GSFCH Poster 2006 (Improving End of Life Care in Nursing Homes in England using the Gold Standards Framework in Care Homes Programme)
• Vienna Poster 2009 (The Gold Standards Framework in Care Homes Training UK Programme: 'Going for Gold')

Other Poster Presentations

• Poster Presentation - Clifford C, Badger F, Hewison A & Thomas K (2006) Improving End of Life Care: An Evaluation in Care Homes. The 6th Palliative Care Congress, University of Sheffield, UK. April 5-7
• Poster Presentation - Clifford C, Badger F, Hewison A & Thomas K (2006) Analysing End of Life care in care homes. A new tool for after death analysis. The 6th Palliative Care Congress, University of Sheffield, UK. April 5-7

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The Department of Health NHS End of Life Care Programme
The work of the GSFCH Programme has been supported by the NHS End of Life Care Programme. The NHS End of Life Care Programme has developed a report with examples of good practice - Building on Firm Foundations

Age Concern Help the Aged
The GSF team have been working closely with Age Concern Help the Aged on many aspects of work around End of Life Care, including the development of GSFCH awareness DVD and support of the GSFCH accreditation. Age Concern Help the Aged are in transition as an organisation, but have been leaders on working with care homes which relates well to the principles of GSF.

The attached documents relating to care homes have been produced by Help the Aged

My Home Life Summary

Liverpool Care Pathway and GSF
The implementation of GSF and LCP have been found in previous phases of the programme to be complementary in their combined usage and dovetail well together. Many care homes who began by using GSF have either used the adapted minimum protocol for the dying or the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). Other care homes have begun with LCP and then added GSF.