SIERRA RECOVERY, CHECKING THE REGISTRATION YOURSELF
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Registration number: N.I.C.A. 67331
Regulator: Junta de Andalucia, Consejeria de Salud
Care unit: U.71 Atencion sanitaria a drogodependientes
Centre type: registered health centre with a supervised treatment residence

You do not need us for any of this. Both registers are public and free.


SICESS, the Andalusian register
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https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/salud/oficinavirtual/consulta/index.jsp

Search for the N.I.C.A. number 67331 directly.


REGCESS, the national register held by the Ministerio de Sanidad
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https://regcess.mscbs.es/regcessWeb/inicioBuscarCentrosAction.do

Search by province (Malaga) and filter by the care unit. This is the step that
trips people up: you must select

    U.71 Atencion sanitaria a drogodependientes

as the tipo de centro. An addiction treatment centre is registered under that
care unit, and a search that does not select it will come back empty. More than
one reporter has concluded from an empty result that a Spanish centre is
unlicensed when the filter was simply wrong.


WHAT THE REGISTRATION DOES AND DOES NOT TELL YOU
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It tells you the centre is authorised by the regional health authority to
operate as a health centre and to provide care to people who are drug
dependent.

It does not make the centre a hospital, and it does not authorise it to run a
medical detox unit. Sierra does not detoxify on site and states so.

It is a Spanish authorisation. It has no relationship to the Care Quality
Commission, which regulates providers in England, and Sierra should not be
described as CQC registered.


A GENERAL POINT WORTH MAKING IN ANY STORY
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Any reader can run these same searches against any centre operating in Spain.
If a centre cannot be found on either register under the drug-dependency care
unit, that is a fair question to put to it.
