Evidence
Our Evidence page brings together robust research, evaluations and real-world outcomes demonstrating the impact of the Gold Standards Framework (GSF) across health and social care. The evidence highlights how GSF drives improvements in quality of care, enhances coordination and communication, supports proactive planning, and helps people live well and die well in the place of their choosing. From primary care and care homes to hospitals and integrated systems, the data shows how GSF influences practice, improves patient and carer experience, and supports service delivery across diverse care settings.
General
- GSF Overall Impact from GSF accredited teams across different providers of proactive person-centred coordinated care
- GSF Impact Assessment Slides – Prof Keri Thomas
- GSF Early Identification Toolkit, PIG
- Accreditation Impact Survey 2023
- Evidence that use of GSF helps improve Advance Care Planning Discussions in different settings
- Evidence that use of GSF improves early identification of patients in different settings
- Evidence that GSF helps reduce hospitalisation in all settings
- Evidence that use of GSF Improves coordination, continuity of care and better communication in different settings
- Airedale Gold Line
GSF Frontrunners
- GSF Frontrunners in Hospitals 2024-2025
- GSF Frontrunners in Hospitals 2016
- GSF Frontrunners in Primary Care 2016
- GSF Frontrunners in Social Care 2024-2025
- GSF Frontrunners in Social Care 2024-2024
Poster Presentations
- Devonshire Dementia Care Home 2026
- The White House Nursing Home
- Hill House Care Home
- Bluebird Care, North Gloucestershire
- Sunley Court Retirement Village
- St Mary’s Hospital, Isles of Scilly – Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Russell Hall Hospital – The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
- Whipps Cross University Hospital, London – Barts Health NHS Trust
- Whipps Cross University Hospital, London – Barts Health NHS Trust – GREAT Tool
- Chase Meadow Health Centre
Case Studies
- Primary Care – Cape Hill Medical Centre 2018
- Care Homes – GSF’s role in Enhanced Health in Care Homes
- Care Homes – How GSF helps Care Homes attain a gold standard of care
- Domiciliary Care – Aroma Care
- Retirement Villages – Golden Years: Improving end of life care in Retirement Villages
- Hospitals – The Gold Standards Framework Hospital programme: implementation and progress – Clifford et al, 2022
Articles
- Article – Russell Hall Hospital, Dudley – Gold Standards Framework
implementation in an acute hospital: end-of-life outcomes - BJGP Population Based Person-Centred End of Life Care: time for a rethink – Thomas Gray
Video Links
- The Gold Standards Framework Programme at Care UK
- Impact of GSF at The Peaches Healthcare Ltd
- Avalon Nursing Home use GSF to improve end of life care for their residents
- GSF Conference & Awards 2025
- Bluebird Care Newcastle & South Tyneside discuss how embedding GSF within their agency has benefitted not only the agency and team, but also the patients.
- The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust talk about how implementing GSF has impacted patients, families and staff at the hospital
- Dr Louis Harpham-Lockyer from The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust talks about their GSF Journey at the 2025 Annual GSF Conference
- HMP Bure discuss the impact of GSF in their Prison
- Interview with Chris Bainborough – Grosvenor House Care Home – a 6th time accredited care home
- Mallard House Neurological Care Centre discuss the impact GSF has had in their care home