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The 2015 GSF Primary Care
Accreditation Quality Hallmark Awards

Quality Improvement Quality Assurance Quality Recognition

Congratulations to the following Accredited GP practices receiving their awards:-
Macklin Street Surgery—Derby
Spilsby Surgery—Lincolnshire,
Ilkley Moor Medical Practice, Yorkshire
Saltaire Medical Practice—Shipley, Yorkshire
These practices will receive the Quality Hallmark Award, endorsed by Royal College of General Practitioners, presented by Dr Catherine Millington Sanders, RCGP EOLC Lead

What is the GSF Going for Gold Programme and Quality Hallmark Award?
-the right care, right person, right place, right time… every time.
The GSF Primary Care Training Programme ‘Going for Gold’ is a practice based quality improvement programme for primary care teams, that enables improvements in care for all people nearing the end of life. The GSF Accreditation process leading to the Quality Hallmark Award assesses the impact of this training on practice activity and outputs with a well-established quality assurance process, endorsed by the Royal College of GPs. The award lasts for 3 years with annual key ratios appraisals. To achieve accreditation these practices have:
Demonstrated significant change as a team, following the GSF ‘Going for Gold’ Training programme
Accreditation assessment includes submission of comparative key ratios (see below), 10 further ADA on-line audits, a detailed portfolio with practice protocol ensuring long-term sustainability, in-depth assessment by phone or visit, with results presented to an independent panel. Key achievements include:
EARLY RECOGNITION -Identifying about 62% of patients for their register
ADVANCE CARE PLANNING discussions -offered to 75%
MORE DYING WHERE THEY CHOOSE -62% reducing hospitalisation rates
MORE CARERS’ OFFERED SUPPORT - 66% and in bereavement - 80%
These front-running practices demonstrate what is possible to achieve in primary care. We hope that the inspiration and enthusiasm of these practices will inspire and encourage other practices to go forward for GSF training and accreditation in future and deliver gold standard levels of end of life care for their patients.

Previously Awarded GP Practices

Summary of Key Ratios of 4 GSF Accredited Practices 2015.

Dr Andrew Foster, GP Lancaster - halved hospital death rate (35%-16.6%) and 83% patients offered advance care plans “GSF Going for Gold has had a profound effect on our care for patients... with a shift in focus to one of earlier identification, forward planning and anticipatory care.”
“GSF has changed the culture of how we practice “ GP Karen Chumley

“The College is pleased to endorse the Award. GSF Going for Gold has provided a vision of what end of life care can look like and the tools to get there. It is changing culture and practice in a really significant way. GSF has been transformational in my area and in many others.” Dr Peter Nightingale, GP and former RCGP End of Life Care Lead

GSF Accredited Organisations
September 2015

Accredited Acute Hospital Wards:
Ward 9 & Coniston Suite, Furness General Hospital
Creedy Ward, Royal Devon & Exeter

Accredited Community Hospital Wards:
Tarrant Ward,
Blandford Community Hospital
Lanyon Ward,
Camborne Redruth Community Hospital
Falmouth Community Hospital
Willow Ward, Liskeard Community Hospital

Accredited Practices:
Ilkley Moor Medical Practice
Macklin Street Surgery
Saltaire Medical Practice
Spilsby Surgery

Accredited Care Homes:
Alexandra Court
Athol House
Colindale Care Home
Cossins House Care Home
Currergate Nursing Home
Glenhurst Manor
Margaret Thatcher Infirmary Royal Hospital Chelsea
North Shore Care Home
Queensmead
St Stephens Care Home
The Crescent Care Home with Nursing
The Old Rectory

Accredited Hospices:
Lakelands Hospice

Re-accredited Homes:
22/24 Thornhill Road
Anglebury Court
Arboretum Nursing Home
Ashmore Nursing Home
Avon View
Belsfield House
Botham Hall Care Home
Brymore House Care Home
Castle Hill House
Castlebar Care Centre
Castleman House
Cedars Castle Hill
Cornmill Nursing Home
Donnington House
Elmwood Nursing Home, Mission Care
Eversleigh Nursing Home
Forest Hill House Nursing Home
Frethey House Care Home
Galanos House
Grosvenor House
Grove Court
Halliwell
Heritage Care Centre
High Peak Nursing Home
Hillview Nursing Home
Lawton Rise Specialist Care Centre

Linden Lodge Nursing Home
Melrose Care Home
Moss Cottage
Nazareth Lodge LTD
Orchard Lodge
Pennington Court
Pentlow Nursing Home
Pexton Grange
Prospect House
Somerleigh Court Nursing Home
Southmead Retirement Home
St David’s Nursing Home
St Teresas
Stichell House
Sun Court Nursing Home
Sunrise of Purley
The Beeches
The Cedars Nursing Home
The Hayes
The Lakes Care Centre
The Old Vicarage
Westmoor View

For more details contact The National Gold Standards Framework Centre in End of Life Care info@gsfcentre.co.uk www.goldstandardsframework.org.uk 01743 291 891

“GSF Going for Gold has had a profound effect on our care for patients... with a shift in the focus of palliative care to one of earlier identification, forward planning and anticipatory care. We are dealing with more and more people at home satisfactorily, with better cross team working, with district and Macmillan nurse teams.”
Dr Andrew Foster, GP Partner Coastal Medical Group, where they halved the hospital death rate (35%-16.6%) and 83% patients on the register offered advance care planning (ACP) discussions

Congratulations to the following practices
Macklin Street Surgery—Derby ,
Spilsby Surgery—Lincolnshire,
Springs Medical Centre—Ilkley Moor ,
Saltaire Medical Practice—Shipley
who have achieved GSF Accreditation and received the Quality Hallmark Awards, endorsed by Royal College of General Practitioners and presented
by Dr Catherine Millington Sanders

“The biggest thing has been the change in mentality, recognising what palliative care is, seeing people who are seriously ill and having palliative care at the back of your mind at all times. We were concerned initially about the increased levels of work. But, once you have the template in place and patients are on the register, the workload drops significantly and we can see the good it is doing. It is a relatively small number of patients, but a big reward.”

of patients for the register (9%-45%)

Awards in 2012

Re-Accredited Care Homes:
Orchard Lodge - London and South East
Pennington Court - West Yorkshire
Pentlow Nursing Home - London and South East
Pexton Grange - Yorkshire
Prospect House - North West
Somerleigh Court Nursing Home - South West
Southmead Retirement Home - South West
St David’s Nursing Home - London and South East
St Teresas - South West
Stichell House - North East
Sun Court Nursing Home - London and South East
Sunrise of Purley - London and South East
The Beeches - South West
The Cedars Nursing Home - West Midlands
The Hayes - South West
The Lakes Care Centre - North West
The Old Vicarage - South West
Westmoor View - North east

·Key ratios - halving hospital deaths (35%-16.6%) , almost doubling dying in usual place of register (40.5%-72.9%) , bereavement support increased (5.4%-76.5%)

“The effort and time invested in the Going for Gold programme in refining and expanding our supportive care register was always seen by the practice as a valuable enhanced service for our patients. However, with the introduction of the Avoiding Unplanned Admissions DES, which complements the ethos of Going for Gold, this has allowed us to seamlessly transition this cohort into the DES and conjointly run each programme side by side, augmenting our patients care further.”
Dr Stephen Clayton , Stalbridge Surgery Dorset

Key ratios- Increased early identification

Key ratios- Increased early identification