Prisons
With an ageing prison population, ensuring compassionate and high-quality end of life care is more crucial than ever. The GSF Service Improvement Training Programme has now been tailored for prison healthcare teams, providing a structured step by step approach to delivering person-centered palliative care.
Why Choose GSF Training?
- Proven framework for high-quality care
- Provides evidence for CQC compliance with accreditation
- Improves patient experience & reduces any unnecessary hospital admissions
- Enhances staff confidence & skills improving staff wellbeing and job satisfaction
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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
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.
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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.
GSF Accreditation Process
The GSF Accreditation Quality Hallmark Award is a nationally recognised kite-mark for excellence in care, co-badged by leading care sector organisations, including British Geriatrics Society, Community Hospitals Association, Hospice UK, Care England, The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), The Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO), National Care Forum and National Care Association and is 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.
GSF is sustainable – we have organisations that have been accredited for over fifteen years.
There are four parts to the Accreditation Process:
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Key Outcome Ratios & Patient Audit
Demonstrating achievement in core standards by your data capture and an After-Death Analysis of five deaths 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.
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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.
This initiative is already making a real difference to prisoners and the dedicated staff providing care. By joining us, you will be part of a national movement driving excellence in end of life care within the prison setting.
