Care Home Residents Feel Benefits Of Sustained Gold Standard End Of Life Care
Gold Standards Framework awards recognise national best practice in 100 homes
Dozens of care homes across the country are delivering sustained quality care for thousands of residents nearing the end of life, with the help of the Gold Standards Framework in Care Homes Training Programme.
Three years after first being recognised for their gold standard end of life care 30 homes are being rewarded again for their continued high quality care. In addition, a further 71 homes were presented with the Quality Hallmark Award for the first time.
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Mr Rosenbach said: "I congratulate the recipients of this year's awards and I am sure they will inspire other care homes. I believe that such accolades can only be achieved by a true team effort from owners, managers and staff.
"At the Care Quality Commission we place great value on the work of the GSF, which has undoubtedly helped to drive up standards of palliative care in care homes. The vital importance of this to people approaching the end of their life, and their families, can hardly be overstated."
The GSF Care Homes programme has helped all these homes increase the number of residents receiving the care they want where they want it as they approach the end of their lives, protecting them from inappropriate hospital admissions and increasing their chances of dying in their preferred place of care – the care home. Many have more than doubled the number of people fulfilling their wish to die in their care home and halved the rate of crisis hospital admissions.
Eight of the homes achieved the highest possible rating – beacon. To be recognised as a beacon, a home must achieve at least 12 excellent ratings in the 20 GSF standards.
Helen Brewster of The Cedars in Lincolnshire, awarded Beacon status for the second time, said: “We like to think we provide a good service so we are very proud that we are continuing to be recognised for that. We are constantly looking at way of improving our residents’ lives.
“I believe everything we are doing, the majority of homes could and should provide – it’s a God given right that people should get this level of care. Everyone deserves that. GSF provides the framework for us to provide that quality of all round care for all our residents. It means focusing on what is important for them – personally, socially and clinically.”
The GSF care homes programme helps homes to embed a new way of working with improved communication with other health and social care professionals and greater co-ordination of care. Implementation of GSF also helps the care home workforce benefit from increased confidence and there are significant cost savings too.
Professor Keri Thomas, GSF National Clinical Lead said: “Despite media reports to the contrary there are many good news stories about such excellence in practice. We believe that GSF is about a ‘gold standard’ of care for all care home residents as they come to the last stage of their life. These homes have proved that they have really embedded this work over a sustained period, continually building on what is already a high standard of care giving older people and their families the confidence that they will be cared for as they would wish. These homes should be proud of their achievement.”
GSF has now delivered the training programme to more than 2,000 homes across the UK and is accrediting up to 200 homes a year. It is the leading training programme for care homes in end of life care.
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