For GPs and practice teams

You’re often the first person they tell.
Now there’s somewhere to send them.

Doctor-led home detox and 12 months of recovery support, with the patient staying in your care. You refer in under a minute, inside the consult, while the patient is ready.

  • Refer in under a minute via ConsultMed
  • Funded routes first: private health and PHN places
  • No added admin: we handle funding checks and billing
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We hold the program. You stay their GP.

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Your reality

Fifteen minutes.
Two options.
Neither built for this patient.

Manage it alone.

Advice, counselling and a script help. But physical dependence needs supervised withdrawal, then months of structure. That doesn’t fit in a standard consult.

Refer to residential rehab.

Often $15,000 or more, and around three weeks away from work and family. It’s the referral most patients decline.

Or the moment passes.

Motivation peaks in the consult where they finally say it. A waitlist or a brochure lets it pass, and it comes back as liver results, falls, low mood, insomnia and ED visits.

The missing middle step.

Between brief intervention and a rehab bed, nothing treats dependence. That’s a gap in the system, not in general practice. It’s the gap we fill.

The gap in numbers

85%

relapse when withdrawal happens without structured follow-up.1

1 in 5

Australians who would benefit from alcohol and other drug treatment actually receive it.2

$15k+

for a typical private residential admission.3

What referral looks like · Illustrative

The consult where the answer was finally yes.

Anna, 36, mentions at the end of a sleep consult that it’s become a bottle a night. This time there’s somewhere to send her: one referral, assessed within days, and she’s still your patient at the next visit.

Why 12 months

Detox is neither a treatment nor a cure.
The treatment is what follows.

Withdrawal management makes stopping safe. It doesn’t change why someone drinks or what happens next. With Clean Slate, detox is one week inside a 12-month program, delivered at home to any address in Australia.

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Doctor-led care. Delivered at home.
  1. 1

    Preparation

    2–3 weeks

    Full suitability assessment, clinical investigations, goal setting with a dedicated clinician, and a nominated support person.

  2. 2

    Detox

    1 week

    Doctor-supervised withdrawal at home: daily clinician check-ins, daily dispensing at the local pharmacy, doctor review, and hospital escalation if needed.

  3. 3

    Aftercare

    11 months

    Pharmacotherapy, one-to-one sessions, group work including facilitated SMART Recovery, drop-ins and monthly masterclasses. The support that makes detox hold.

Refer a patient via ConsultMed

Not on ConsultMed? Use the online referral form

Independently evaluated, routinely measured

84%

of evaluated clients met their alcohol goals, with big drops in drinking and distress.5

−21

mean AUDIT points at three months, from a baseline of 26.6 (n=1,565).6

80%

of clients retained to three months. Mean K10 down 8.8 points.6

Who we are

Australia’s clinician-led telehealth clinic for alcohol and other drug dependence.

Clinician-led.

GP addiction-medicine leadership, dedicated clinicians and doctor-supervised withdrawal. Our model is published in the International Journal of Integrated Care.

Read the published model

A social enterprise.

Built to break down treatment barriers, not to maximise margin. Inclusive, non-judgemental care, with a published Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan.

Already funded.

30+ insurer contracts and PHN-commissioned places. Funded pathways your patients can use now.

At scale.

3,000+ treatment episodes started in the last twelve months.

Dr Chris Davis
Dr Chris Davis
Chief Medical Officer

Clinical leadership

Led by a GP. Built to work with general practice.

Clean Slate is led by GPs with a special interest in alcohol and drug medicine. Australian-based doctors and clinicians manage your patient through each phase and report back to you.

Dr Chris Davis, Chief Medical Officer

A GP with a special interest in drug and alcohol medicine. Chris developed the home detox model in the UK, established Clean Slate in Sydney, and trains other GPs through the RACGP. He wrote the Australian Prescriber article on supporting patients through home detox.

Australian-based doctors and clinicians

Our team holds suitability assessment, withdrawal prescribing, daily supervision and escalation, so you aren’t managing detox in a 15-minute consult.

Meet the full team

Clinical responsibility

Shared care, with responsibility clearly divided.

Clean Slate holds

  • Suitability assessment and risk screening
  • Withdrawal prescribing, daily supervision and escalation
  • Pharmacotherapy and recovery support through the year
  • Updates back to you at each phase

You stay

  • The patient’s usual GP for everything else
  • The coordinator of their wider health care
  • Informed at preparation, detox and aftercare milestones
  • Their GP when the program ends

Australian Privacy Principles compliant. Health information is handled under the health-records laws of each state and territory.

How referral works

Structured care you can’t deliver in fifteen minutes.
No added admin.

  1. 1

    You refer

    Under 1 minute

    Refer through ConsultMed or the one-page online form while motivation is live. Or hand over the QR code so the patient can check their suitability themselves.

  2. 2

    We assess

    Within days

    Our clinical team runs a full suitability assessment and checks the patient’s funding. High-acuity and complex-risk patients are escalated, not enrolled.

  3. 3

    We treat and support

    12 months

    Supervised home detox, then clinician-led aftercare and recovery support for the rest of the year.

  4. 4

    We keep you informed

    At every phase

    An acknowledgement within 24 hours of referral. A clinic letter with the planned detox start date, an update after the detox review, relevant results, and notice of any ongoing anti-craving medication.

Who pays

Funded routes first.
Nothing passes through the practice.

Private health insurance

Fully funded for patients with unrestricted psychiatric hospital cover. 30+ insurer contracts, checked by us at intake.

PHN-commissioned places

Funded places in select regions, at no cost to the patient.

Self-pay

From $11–13 a day across the 12-month program. A fraction of a residential admission.

No admin for your practice

We check the patient’s funding at intake and handle all billing directly. No forms, claims or payments go through your practice.

What GPs usually ask us

Your questions,
answered.

Is home detox safe?

Yes, for the right patients. We use robust clinical governance, a full suitability assessment, doctor-led medication, daily clinician contact and hospital escalation for anyone outside scope.

Which patients suit it?

Adults with alcohol or other drug dependence who are medically suitable for home withdrawal. High-acuity and complex-risk patients are escalated, not enrolled. You don’t need to screen them first: we assess suitability.

I don’t have time for another process.

One page, under a minute, or the patient self-refers by QR code. We handle assessment, paperwork and funding checks from there.

Will I lose the patient?

No. You stay their GP for everything else, get updates at each phase, and resume full management when the program ends.

What if my patient wants to cut down, not stop?

That’s fine. Goals can be moderation or abstinence. The patient chooses and we tailor the plan.

What does it cost my patient?

Many patients are funded through private health insurance or a PHN-commissioned place. We check this at intake. Self-pay is from $11–13 a day across the 12 months. Nothing is billed to your practice.

Refer and reference

Everything you need to refer and reference.

Refer a patient via ConsultMed
Already integrated. Takes under a minute.
Open ConsultMed →
One-page referral form
Not on ConsultMed? Refer here.
Open form →
One-page GP referral guide
Quick reference to the referral process and what to expect back.
Download →
Guidelines for the Treatment of Alcohol Problems
Australian national guidelines (4th edition, 2021).
Read the guidelines →
University of Sydney evaluation
Independent evaluation co-commissioned by CESPHN, Sydney North HN and COORDINARE.
View evaluation →
International Journal of Integrated Care
Our model of home withdrawal and structured aftercare.
Read the paper →
Chris Davis, Australian Prescriber
Clinical process for medically supervised home alcohol detox.
Read article →

Keep learning

Resource library

Pharmacotherapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: A practical guide for GPs and other healthcare practitioners

View resource →

Back To Basics: Alcohol Use Disorder In General Practice

View resource →

The Role of SMART Recovery in Contemporary Addiction Care

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One ask

Refer the next patient who tells you.

You’re there when they finally say it. We make treatment the next step, at home. Refer through ConsultMed, use the online form, or hand over the QR so the patient can check their suitability. BP Premier integration coming soon.

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1 Hunt et al. 1971; Moos & Moos 2006, Addiction.

2 Ritter et al. 2025, Drug and Alcohol Review (treatment-gap estimates).

3 Residential cost and length based on Australian private provider fees.

4 The Clean Slate Clinic. International Journal of Integrated Care 2024;24(S1). doi:10.5334/ijic.APIC3205.

5 University of Sydney independent evaluation, proof of concept co-commissioned by CESPHN, Sydney North HN and COORDINARE.

6 Clean Slate clinical outcomes data to September 2026; AUDIT and K10 change among clients with a completed three-month follow-up.

Anna’s story is illustrative and does not describe a real patient.