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• Literature Review & Evidence of GSF

  1. Introduction to GSF Literature Review
  2. Literature section Part A - Empirical - about GSF 
  3. Literature section Part B - Citations - mentions GSF   
  4. Grey Literature  
  5. NICE Literature Review Reference - relates to GSF   
  6. Summary of GSFCH Evidence of Effectiveness June 12

• Summary of Evidence
   

  1. Summary of Evidence Care Homes
  2. Acute Hospital Report - Phase 1
  3. Acute Hospital Report - Phase 2
  4. Acute Hospital Report - Phase 3
  5. Acute Hospital Report - Phase 4

• Care Homes

  GSF Care Homes Poster 2013
  GSF Somerset Poster 
  ACP in Care Homes Poster 2013
  Accreditation/ Re - Accreditation Homes Poster 2015
  An evaluation of the implementation of a programme to improve end of life care in nursing homes, F Badger, C Clifford, A Hewison and K Thomas, Palliat Med 2009; 23; 502 originally published online May 28, 2009; DOI: 10.1177/0269216309105893
  A Gold Standards Case Study (Oakfield Nursing Care Home, Lancashire)
  Going for Gold - be recognised for excellent end of life care
  Improving Community Care - Gold Standards Framework 
  How to improve treatment in Care Homes
  Poster presentation analysing EOLC in Care Homes
  Poster presentation Improving EOLC
  Raising standards for elderly people dying in care homes
  Summary of GSFCH Effectiveness & Evidence
  Midlothian GSFCH report 2008
   

• Primary Care

  
  RCGP Commissioning Guidance in End of Life Care - March 2013
  GSF Primary Care Poster
  RCGP Matters of Life and Death 
  A full guidance paper on Primary Palliative Care for QOF
  A summary of all QOF2 points
  Brief Introductory guidance paper on QOF palliative care
  Prognostic Scoring paper
  Thomas K and Noble B, Improving the delivery of palliative care in general practice: an evaluation of the first phase of the Gold Standards Framework; Palliative Medicine 2007; 21: 49-53
  End of Life Care in Primary Care National Snapshot, 2009
  RCGP EOLC Charter
  RCGP Poster 2009
  Palliative Care Beyond that for Cancer in Australia, Mitchell G, Johnson C, Thomas K, Murray S, MJA 2010: 193: 124-126
  The role of general practitioners in children's end-of-life care: a survey of preferred involvement, Karen L Shaw, Frances J Badger, Keri Thomas; The Gold Standards Framework Paediatric Group
  Advance Care Planning in Primary Care - Aziz SHEIKH, Scott A MURRAY, Keri THOMAS, BMJ (International ed.) 333:75747574, 868-960, British Medical Association, 2006. doi 10.1136/bmj.39003.569861.80
  How to develop Just In Case Boxes in a Local Area
  Suggested contents for a Just in Case Box
  Example of Good Practice Resource Guide Just in Case Boxes

• Acute Hospitals

  GSF Acute Hospitals Poster 2011 - 2012
  Current and planned palliative care services provision for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients in 239 UK hospital units: comparison with the Gold Standards Framework, Buxton K, Stone R, Buckingham R, Pursey N, Roberts C, Palliative Medicine, July 2010 Vol 24 No 5 480-485

• Community Hospitals

• Hospices

• Domiciliary Care

  GSF Domiciliary Care Poster
  SCR1 - Dom Care V1 2014
  SCR2 - Dom Care Mar 2014
  SCR3 - PACA Assessment - Dom Care
  SCR4 - Pepsi Cola - Dom Care
  SCR5 - Initial Pain Assessment V2
  SCR7 - Continuous Pain Assessment
  Suggested Reading List
  Useful Websites

• End of Life Care
  
  The Final Curtain (interview with Keri Thomas for an article that appeared in the Guardian paper on 28 Jan 2009). Assisted suicide overshadows the debate about how to die, but the NHS end of life care champion tells Mark Gould why making plans for how we want to end our days might prevent impersonal hospital deaths
  "An out of hours protocol for community palliative care: practitioners perspectives" King N, Thomas K, et al (2003), Int J Palliat Nurs 9(7): 277-82

  'End of life care is a litmus test for the whole of the NHS'  Thomas K, (2014), HSJ Resource Centre, 21-23

• Advance Care Planning
  
  Hope and advance care planning, BMJ, Oct 06, 333 890 to 895 article