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Service user

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CQC Glossary of terms used in the guidance for providers and managers

Care Quality Commission

A person who receives services provided in the carrying on of a regulated activity. Please note: The regulations refer to 'service users' and where we quote the regulation directly we use this phrase. Elsewhere in the guidance we have used the terms 'people who use services' or 'people'.

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