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Are you trying to find a Rehab Referral Specialist UK?

Use our knowledge

This might sound cliched, but you have found one! We are a collection of addiction clinicians who, among them, have many decades of experience in the addiction rehab sector, ensuring you access to a trustworthy Rehab Referral Specialist UK.

Our clinicians work in rehab centres

Our clinicians work in rehab centres, as well as NHS/local authority commissioned services, GP shared care provisions as well as private hospitals and prisons.

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They answer your call, via an app, so whomever is free will be happy to signpost you to a suitable rehab centre as a dedicated Rehab Referral Specialist UK.

Obviously, you won’t be speaking to a clinician working in a prison, while they are on shift: phones are not allowed in!

How Can Find Me a Rehab Help?

The addiction sector can be accessed, either by speaking to a rehab centre, a call centre (for the larger chains) or a referral agent.

Independent, impartial and honest free advice

When you speak to an addictions clinician at Find Me a Rehab, you will get impartial, confidential, and free advice (and referrals) from a trusted Rehab Referral Specialist UK.

Our clinicians are not sales people with targets or centre owners with beds to fill and staff to pay: They already have jobs.

Your phone call goes to an app.

Whomever is free will answer your call.

Due to the locations our clinicians work in, there is usually someone free: 24/7.

Emails are also answered, in confidence, within a few minutes.

A clinician can advise you what treatment you will need and also what you don’t need.

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Avoid referral agents

Referral agents are there to sell.

Someone with no clinical training, experience (and who has never even visited a rehab) working from Thailand, Cyprus, or their kitchen table is not the person you should be speaking with.

It’s best to trust a reputable specialist in the UK for rehab referrals.

What Are Referral Agents And How To Avoid Them?

The addiction treatment referral sector is not a regulated market.

Bad actors

While rehab centres need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), there are those who try and exploit loopholes or just ignore the law.

Fines of £60,780 issued following the CQC prosecution of an unlawful substance misuse service based in Liverpool – Care Quality Commission.

Illegal services

Even after her conviction, the owner (now based in Thailand) continued to advertise her centres solely so she could sell on callers’ details to reputable centres for commissions in excess of 30%.

It is not unknown for referral agents to invoice rehab centres within minutes of you arriving. They want their commission. Referral agents are salespeople: Nothing more.

While the person you speak to may have some lived experience of addiction, they have sales targets to meet, unlike a genuine Rehab Referral Specialist UK.

Key Takeaways

  • Find Me a Rehab provides reliable referral services with experienced addiction clinicians as your Rehab Referral Specialist UK.
  • Clinicians work in various rehab settings and offer free, impartial advice without sales pressure.
  • Avoid referral agents, as they often lack clinical training and may manipulate users for commissions.
  • The referral sector lacks regulation, making it crucial to choose trusted, local specialists for rehab.
  • Contact Find Me a Rehab for confidential guidance on treatment options and support at no charge.

What Are The Pitfalls Of The Referral Sector?

Some referral agents advertise entirely bogus centres.

Lifeline Surrey

Lifeline Surrey was a good example. Pictures, taken from Rightmove and a local gym, were added to a website to make it look as if there was a private rehab in Surrey: There wasn’t.

Callers would be told that the rehab was full, under refurbishment, or some other excuse. They would take your details and sell them on to reputable rehabs: for commission.

Virtual services

Referral agencies invest large sums of money on renting virtual office space in buildings they have never been to.

They do this so they can trick Google into thinking they have services based there: They don’t.

Manuipulating Google

There are nowhere near as many rehab centres in the UK as people will have you think. That’s why having a Rehab Referral Specialist UK is crucial.

There are vast swathes of the UK that has no coverage, whereas there are others with lots of centres: It is all to do with cost.

By its very nature, a rehab centre needs a large building, therapy and clinical staff, catering and housekeeping staff as well as admin, maintenance, etc.

Thus by having centres in areas where property is cheaper, the running costs can be kept low and in turn, the cost of treatment.

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Marking territory

The best way to avoid a referral agent is to ask them the name of the centre they want to signpost you to before you give them your details: They won’t want to do this.

Why?

Because as soon as you give them your name they will email your details to every centre in the UK.

They do this to mark their territory.

Data protection breaches

One particularly notorious referral agent will pass your details to a centre which they want you to go to and then every other centre: In case you book somewhere else.

They will alter your phone number, by a digit, when they scattergun your details so the other centres cannot call you.

How Can I Get A Free Clinician Referral?

Simple: Call and speak to one of our experienced addictions clinicians, your trusted Rehab Referral Specialist UK.

They will give you free, independent, and impartial advice on a treatment plan and where you can get low-cost, appropriate treatment.

They don’t charge for advice or referrals.

If you would rather send an email, this will be answered in total confidence.

Your safety

We are registered with the Information Commissioners Office and take data protection extremely seriously.

Without your expressed permission, we cannot discuss your enquiry with anyone else, assuring you of confidentiality with a reliable Rehab Referral Specialist in the UK.

Getting help

Using our live chat, phone or email, you can speak directly with an experienced addictions clinician with decades of experience of treating people in rehab centres.

Our clinicians can advise you on any aspect of detox, rehab, therapy, relapse prevention and aftercare.

We can help you with treatment plans, treatment options, locations, costings and availability.

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