Welcome to the GSF Website!
| The National GSF Central Team, based in the NHS, develop frameworks and training programmes to enable generic care providers deliver a gold standard of care for all people nearing the end of life. |
GSF is a systematic evidence based approach to optimising the care for patients nearing the end of life delivered by generalist providers. It is concerned with helping people to live well until the end of life and includes care in the final years of life for people with any end stage illness in any setting.
GSF is extensively used in the UK, by thousands of primary care teams and care homes and increasingly in other settings through cross boundary care and also internationally. It is regarded by many as 'the bedrock of generalist palliative care'. GSF is recommended as best practice by the Department of Health End of Life Care Strategy, NICE, Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Nurses and other major policy groups.
The National GSF Centre is hosted within the NHS by Walsall tPCT in the West Midlands. Its aim is to support best implementation of GSF in different settings through specific training programmes, tools, resources and other developments.
Find out more by clicking on the relevant box or link or contact us at the National GSF Centre (Tel: 01922 604666)
