Pentlow nursing home, Eastbourne,  is celebrating after achieving a care status shared only by 60 homes in the country.

Matron Lesley Wicks and deputy matron Judith Charman collected the Quality Mark for Beacon status at the Gold Standard Framework ceremony in London on January 14th. The GSF is a framework to enable a gold standard of care for all people nearing the end of their lives.

 

Lesley said: “Achieving this status has proved our deep commitment to supporting our residents and their families with end of life care. The Gold Standard Framework enables us to offer and plan a holistic and individual advanced care plan for each resident. We will continue to invest in providing the highest standard of nursing care by training and supporting our staff.”

 

GSF for care homes national clinical lead professor Keri Thomas described accredited homes as ‘models of excellence’. The national programme, recommended in the Government’s End of Life Care Strategy, aims to improve the quality of care for those in the last years of their life, provide better co-ordination with primary care teams and specialists and reduce avoidable hospital admissions. To qualify for accreditation, care homes must have undertaken the full GSFCH training programme over nine months, embedded this into their homes for at least six months and then undertaken a rigorous accreditation process 'Going for Gold.' 

 

Pentlow is part of Canford Healthcare, which provides nursing and care for the elderly to the highest standards. Canford includes Inglewood Nursing Home and Pentlow Community Care in Eastbourne as well as a Meal Delivery Service and training division.

 

Photo (l to r) Nikki Sawkins - GSF care homes lead nurse, Lesley Wicks - matron at Pentlow, Judith Charman - deputy matron, Eve Richardson -  Chief Executive The National Council for Palliative Care, Paul Cann -  Director of Policy at Help the Aged.