- Residential substance misuse service
T.H.O.M.A.S
Assessment report published 20 November 2025
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
We assessed the residential substance misuse service T.H.O.M.A.S Salford Recovery Centre on 24 July 2025. We last assessed the service on 27 June 2019. We undertook this assessment due to the age of the previous rating. At this assessment we assessed 1 assessment service group: Residential substance misuse services.
We found that overall, the service was rated Requires Improvement. This was because some areas required improvement to ensure consistently high standards of care.
T.H.O.M.A.S Salford Recovery Centre was registered with the Care Quality Commission in June 2011, to deliver the regulated activity: Accommodation for persons who require treatment for substance misuse.
The Salford Recovery Centre service is provided by the T.H.O.M.A.S (Those On The Margins Of A Society) organisation, which is an independent substance misuse service provider. It provides substance addiction residential rehabilitation for males over 18 years of age. The service is commissioned by the local NHS trust to provide services as part of the Achieve network. Achieve is the local substance misuse treatment network. The local NHS trust is the lead provider for the Achieve network.
The recovery model of Salford Recovery Centre is a structured, abstinence-based residential recovery programme built around the internationally recognised 12-Step model. Residents live and engage as part of a therapeutic community, where recovery is supported through shared responsibility, mutual support, and a safe, substance-free environment. This includes a group dynamic programme, and individual focused work, based on the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-Step programme. The service has the capacity for 7 residents. When we assessed the service there were 6 residents.
At the time of the assessment, the service had a nominated individual but did not have a registered manager. Interim management arrangements were in place, and the service later submitted a registered manager application.
We rated the service Requires Improvement because we found 3 breaches of regulations in relation to premises and equipment, governance, and staffing.
We have asked the provider for an action plan in response to the concerns found at this assessment.