"End of life care is everyone’s business"
Prof. Keri Thomas
Founder of GSF
Welcome to the GSF International homepage
An overview of GSF
GSF 25th Anniversary in the UK 1998-2023
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GOLD STANDARDS FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL
Working in countries beyond the UK
This Gold Standards Framework International (GSF-I) website provides information and guidance on ways to improve care for people in their last years of life given by the frontline generalist workforce.
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Building on over 25 years of Gold Standards Framework (GSF) in the UK here we include information on GSF training, tools, experience and evidence, with helpful guidance on next steps to take this work forward.
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The purpose of GSF International is to share with others across the world this knowledge, learning and experience in enabling generalists, with the common goal of providing better care for more people in the final years of life with any condition, in any setting, in the wider population.
End of Life Care is Everyone's Business
WHAT CAN WE DO FOR YOU?
ANDREW RODGER TRUST
Charitable work in resource-poor countries.
If you are interested in bringing this work to your own country, this site provides a wealth of information including a detailed overview of GSF, examples of application in the UK and in Africa, as well as helpful articles and published evidence, experience and testimonials of its impact and free downloadable tools to use in practice, a library of evidence.
The aim of GSF:
to enable a 'gold standard' of care
for all people in their last years of life,
supporting them to live well until they die.
Working through the charity, the Andrew Rodger Trust, this work seeks to improve palliative and end-of-life care in Africa and low-to-middle-income-countries (LMIC), partnering with the African Palliative Care Association (APCA) alongside African national palliative care associations.
This includes the current Gold Care Africa 2025-6 pilot in 3 African hospitals in Uganda and Kenya. Phase 2 to begin spring 2027 (click here for the flyer).
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Please see here the APCA Conference 2023
GSF INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Working with high income developed countries, universities and international collaborating centres.
GSF International in developed or high income countries, through Horizon Life Care. Over the years we have been working with people from Australia, Canada, Japan, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Belgium, Portugal, Taiwan, Croatia, Malta South Africa, Singapore, Holland, USA and many more.
NOTE any profits from work in developed countries through GSF International and Horizon are passed on to the charity for work in Africa through the Andrew Rodger Trust.