Residential Rehab Outcomes Project

The project is being developed by Richard Phillips. Richard has both commissioned and run registered care homes for substance misusers; he has an enduring commitment to improving the effectiveness of these services and the commissioning structure that supports them. 

Earlier in his career, RP initiated and ran a forerunner project with a consortium of care managers in London. The ‘Commissioner Led Outcome Monitoring Scheme’ (charmingly abbreviated to CLOMS) used the CISS outcome tool and paper forms to collect outcome data of clients referred by London care managers. That project, was in turn influenced by an interesting review of rehab placements that took place in Hammersmith and Fulham, conducted by John Gordon-Smith and George Cristo, the author of the CISS outcome tool.

RP further developed a critical analysis of the rehab market during his time as Director of Services at Phoenix Futures, the largest not for profit provider of residential rehab for substance misusers in the UK.  He published several articles on the subject and using this critique as the cornerstone of the consensus response to the national drug strategy.

By way of further background, biography and full disclosure: RP has worked in the substance misuse field since 1989 in roles from outreach worker to policy work, commissioning and senior management; he was a Director at Alcohol Concern prior to his time at Phoenix Futures. During his time at Phoenix, he acted in an advisory capacity to a number of NTA projects on Tier Four services. 

He is also the owner of ScriptBase Software (www.scriptbase.co.uk) currently sits on a Joseph Rowntree Foundation research committee on alcohol and has been a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs since January 2008.