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End of Life Care
If you’re weighing up whether to choose End of Life Care for your loved one, here’s why you should: because it’ll give you peace of mind, because it’ll mean your loved one gets the best care possible, and because it’ll enable them to spend their remaining days where they feel best – at home. End of Life Care at home is also less disruptive than a hospice or hospital care, making what is a difficult period that much more manageable.
Gold Standards Framework (GSF)
At Bluebird Care North Hampshire & West Berkshire we have made the commitment to acheive the coveted GSF accrediation. We started the journey in the summer of 2024 and, by putting the theory we have learned in to practice, we hope to have our accreditation confirmed early in 2026. Our aim is to enable a ‘gold standard’ of care for any Bluebird Care customer, with any condition, in any setting, at any time in their last years of life. We want to ensure they live well before they die and die well in the place and manner of their choosing. Our vision is to ensure that where we care for those in their final years of life we deliver gold standard care.
Gold Standards Framework websiteThe Gold Standards Framework (GSF) is a registered charity and has been the UK’s leading training provider for frontline staff in caring for people in the last years of life for over 25 years. The GSF is a practical and evidence-based end of life care service improvement programme.
The GSF is a model that enables good practice to be available to all people nearing the end of their lives, irrespective of diagnosis. It is a way of raising the level of care to the very best it can be. Through the GSF, palliative care skills for cancer patients can now be used to meet the needs of people with other life-limiting conditions. The GSF provides a framework for a planned system of care in consultation with the patient and family. It promotes better coordination and collaboration between healthcare professionals. The tool helps to optimise out-of-hours’ care and can prevent crises and inappropriate hospital admissions.