Hospices
We invite Hospice teams to join the GSF Service Improvement Programme with your acute trust colleagues, designed to enhance end of life care and improve collaborative working. This programme enables integrated working with our health and care services, by providing you with the tools to deliver high-quality supportive care, effective communication and improved outcomes for patients in their final stages of life.
Why Choose GSF Training?
- Proven framework for high-quality care
- Provides evidence for CQC compliance with accreditation
- Improves patient and carer experience and reduces unnecessary hospital admissions and length of stay
- Enhances staff confidence and skills improving staff wellbeing and job satisfaction
- Fosters a compassionate organisational culture for the benefit of patients, families and carers and staff
GSF helps drive National Policy into Practice
- GSF aligns with the NHS Long Term Plan
- GSF aligns with NICE Guidance
- Ambitions for palliative and end of life care
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.
Register your interest for further details and pricing.
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 patient outcomes, and enhance staff knowledge and skill with intrinsic evaluations aligned to national standards.
GSF Accreditation Process
The GSF Accreditation Quality Hallmark Award is a nationally recognised kite-mark for excellence in care, co-badged by Hospice UK and other leading care sector organisations and is an information source for Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection process.
On completion of the training, Hospices 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. Hospices that have re-accredited every three years achieve platinum status.
GSF is sustainable. There are multiple platinum organisations across the UK.
There are four parts to the Accreditation Process:
1
Key Outcome Ratios & Patient Audit
Demonstrating achievement in core standards as a run chart over 8 weeks, including an After-Death Analysis of five death and five discharges to demonstrate that GSF is embedded in practice at patient level.
2
Portfolio of
Evidence
Documenting implementation of the GSF 7 Key Tasks, 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 Conference
Attendance
Celebrating success and receiving the Quality Hallmark Award.
Ongoing Benefits of Accreditation
- Exclusive Access to the GSF members' area and resources.
- Invitation to Free Quarterly Micro-Learning Events for continued professional development and our quarterly newsletter sharing good practice.
Achieving GSF Accreditation enhances quality of care, team collaboration, and patient outcomes, reinforcing your commitment to gold-standard end of life care.
Impact of GSF in Hospices
