The Gold Standards Framework was founded by Professor Keri Thomas OBE on 2000. It is the UK’s leading training provider for generalist frontline staff in caring for people in the last years of life. For over twenty years, GSF has helped teams in all settings provide more proactive, better supportive care, enabling people to live well until they die. Many thousands of doctors, nurses and carers have received GSF quality improvement training, improving the care of several million people over the years. We are proud to have awarded GSF Accreditation to health and social care organisations across the country who have demonstrated that quality end of life care is embedded within their organisations. Many organisations have also gone through Re-Accreditation, receiving the GSF Platinum Award, demonstrating sustainabiility. The GSF Quality Hallmark Award is a kitemark for quality care!

GSF helps put policy into practice

GSF both influences national policy developments, and helps put policy into practice on the ground supporting grass-roots change in line with NHS Long Term Plan, NICE Guidance, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, DH EOLC Strategy, Ambitions Care Quality Commission (CQC), and Skills for Care etc. (see Evidence Base). The aim is to enable a ‘gold standard’ of care for everyone, with any condition, in any setting, given by any care provider and at any time in a persons’ last year of life to ensure people live well before they die, and to die well in the place and the manner of their choosing.

What is GSF in practice?

GSF is a practical systematic, evidence-based end of life care service improvement programme, identifying the right people, promoting the right care, in the right place, at the right time, every time. The training is for generalist front-line care providers.

GSF is all about quality care - quality improvement with training, quality assurance with standards of care and quality recognition with recognised accreditation award.

How can you access the training?

The current training programmes are listed below, click on the programme to download the information flyer.

To book a place on one our upcoming training programmes, please complete a Registration Form below, give us a call on 02077 893740 or email info@gsfcentre.co.uk

Registration Form for Care Homes and Domiciliary Care Training

Registration Form for Hospitals Training

Accreditation and the Quality Hallmark Award

Once organisations have completed the training and embedded their learning into practice they can apply for Accreditation and receive the Quality Hallmark Award. The Accreditation Award lasts for three years, after which organisations need to apply for Re-Accreditation. We are proud to announce that we have Platinum Status organisations who have now been Accredited for more than 12 years! To see a list of Accreditated Organisations, please click here: Accredited Organisations

COVID19 Pandemic

For information related to the COVID19 pandemic, medical guidance and access to support - see here

Overview from the GSF Centre

Use of GSF at Avalon Nursing Home

Interview with Bluebird Care

For more details of each GSF Programme, select one of the icons below

Primary Care

Care Homes

Acute and Community Hospitals

Domiciliary Care

Hospice Support

Retirement Villages

Prisons

Cross Boundary Care