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Bolton Palliative and End of Life Care
Gold Standards Framework
- Background to GSF
- The focus of the GSF programme
is to improve care for the dying in
the community by optimising the
local primary care team's provision,
so that more patients are enabled to
live and die where they choose, and
un-needed hospital admissions are
avoided. Other services and factors
are also involved in admission
avoidance, and GSF can help in
clarifying and measuring these, to
better commission local services.
- It is aimed at
COMMUNITY care for
patients living at home
and in Care Homes - all
areas supported by
primary care teams
- It aims to ENABLE
GENERALISTS (GPs, DNs/community
nurses, Care Home and
other staff), so that
they can best work with
specialists and hospice
staff
- It includes patients
in the FINAL YEAR of
life - year, months,
weeks or life as well as
those in the final days
- GSF is applicable to
patients with ANY
ADVANCED ILLNESS (heart
failure, COPD,
neurological disorders,
renal failure etc)
- Once the structure
of GSF is in place, it
can act as a springboard
for other local
developments in
community palliative
care to further improve
outcomes for patients
and cost effectiveness
for health
commissioners. More
information about the
Gold Standards Framework
can be found by clicking
on the web link below:
www.goldstandardsframework.nhs.uk
- Progress in Bolton
- GSF Documentation (Forms SCR1 to SCR7 are on
main website in PDF under standard forms, can
they be put here as well)
-
GSF prognostic indicator guidance
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