Care Homes
The GSF Care Homes Training is the UK’s most widely used end-of-life care training programme for the generalist workforce in health and social care, supporting people in their final stages of life. Since 2004, thousands of care homes have completed the programme, with hundreds receiving the GSF Quality Hallmark Award each year.
For 25 years, GSF has empowered care teams to deliver proactive, personalised, and well-coordinated care, improving communication and collaboration with the primary care team, hospital and community services. This has benefitted residents by reducing unplanned hospital admissions and deaths, enabling more people to live well and die where they choose.
Why Choose GSF Training?
- Proven framework for high-quality care
- Provides evidence for CQC compliance with accreditation
- Improves client outcomes & reduces unnecessary hospital admissions
- Enhances staff confidence & skills improving staff wellbeing and job satisfaction
GSF helps drive National Policy into Practice
- GSF aligns with NICE Guidance
- Ambitions for palliative and end of life care
- Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH)
With an increasing aging population, quality end of life care is more important than ever. Knowing what truly matters most to the people we care for will inform their personalised care support plan, to fulfil their wishes and preferences for the future.
For more information, costs, and to register for a place on the GSF Care Homes Training, please click here.
What’s Included in the Training?
8 Live interactive Webinar Sessions
Covering the GSF 7 Key tasks (Identify, Advance Care Planning, Plan Living Well, Plan Dying Well, Family and Carer Support, Compassionate Care with a Systematic Approach) delivered by an experienced clinical team, capturing step-by-step progress, offering guidance and support and sharing of best practice.
Exclusive Tools & Resources
Access to the members area with all the teaching materials, tools and resources - everything you will need for successful implementation.
Measurable Impact & Benchmarking
Track organisational progress, improve client outcomes, and enhance staff knowledge and skill with intrinsic evaluations aligned to national standards.
“The GSF programme represents incredibly good value, builds on 25 years of success involving thousands of care homes, where it has been shown to be transformational, not only for staff but for relatives and residents. GSF helps demystify dying, and encourages everyone to play their part, so staff morale improves and turnover decreases.”
–Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England
GSF Accreditation Process
The GSF Accreditation Quality Hallmark Award is a nationally recognised kite-mark for excellence in care, co-badged with leading care sector organisations, including Care England, the National Care Forum and the National Care Association and an information source for Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection process.
On completion of the training, organisations can register for accreditation to receive the Quality Hallmark Award. Registrations for accreditation open in November each year and the awards are presented the following September. GSF Accreditation lasts for three years at which point you would need to register for re-accreditation. Organisations that have re-accredited every three years achieve platinum status and can be nominated for Care Home Of The Year.
GSF is sustainable, there are homes that have now been accredited for over fifteen years.
There are four parts to the Accreditation Process:
1
Key Outcome Ratios & Patient Audit
Key Outcome Ratios and After-Death Analysis of five residents to demonstrate that GSF is embedded in practice.
2
Portfolio of
Evidence
Demonstrating the GSF 7 Key Tasks embedded in practice, with supporting evidence and a sustainability plan.
3
Assessment
Visit
On-site assessment by the GSF Team to evaluate implementation, team engagement, and long-term sustainability.
4
GSF Awards
Ceremony
Celebrating success and receiving the Quality Hallmark Award.
“After nearly a decade of sustaining this well-respected accreditation, it has highlighted that GSF has significantly contributed to the high quality of care we provide to our residents, both in the end stages of life and when promoting quality of life throughout our residents whole journey with us.”
– Colleen Brothers, Manager at Bluebirds Neurological Care Centre.
Ongoing Benefits of Accreditation
- Continued Access to the GSF members' area with up to date information and resources.
- Free Quarterly Micro-Learning Events for continued professional development and our quarterly newsletter sharing good practice.
Achieving GSF Accreditation improves the quality of care, team collaboration, and resident outcomes, reinforcing your commitment to gold-standard end of life care.
Impact of GSF in Care Homes
