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Substance Misuse Service Registration
CQC registration for residential detoxification and substance misuse services. The clinical model has to be evidenced before the application will hold.
How we get you registered
Scope and plan. We confirm your service model, client group and timeline, then agree the scope of work before anything starts.
Build the application. We draft your applications, statement of purpose and supporting evidence, and get them ready to submit.
Submit and support. We support you through submission, the assessment, and the questions CQC asks along the way.
Not sure which activities you need?
Getting the regulated activities wrong is the most common and most expensive error in this sector.
Work out the activities in four questionsWhat is included
CQC · residential detoxification.
Provider and registered manager applications
Prepared together, with a manager whose background fits a clinical service.
The right regulated activities
Usually including treatment of disease, disorder or injury, and accommodation for persons who require treatment for substance misuse. Scoped to your actual model.
Clinical governance framework
Who is clinically accountable, how that is evidenced, and how it connects to the rest of the service. More on clinical governance.
Medicines management and prescribing
The arrangements for prescribing, storage, administration and audit — the area CQC probes hardest in these services.
Policies and evidence
Mapped to the CQC fundamental standards, applied to a detoxification model.
Interview preparation
A clinical interview. We run it first. Interview preparation.
Before you commit
Residential detox carries clinical risk that a social care model does not. Withdrawal management, physical health monitoring and prescribing all have to be covered by somebody clinically qualified and clearly accountable.
Be clear from the start about who your prescriber is and what their relationship to the service is. That single question shapes the governance, the insurance and the registration.
Fees are quoted before any work starts. Nothing on this page is an offer.
Tell us about the clinical model.
Who prescribes, who monitors, and what happens overnight. That is the heart of the application. Thirty minutes, no charge.
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Clinically accountable, and able to show it.