Live-in care and home care in Abingdon

How we arrange care in Abingdon

In Abingdon and the villages around it, Day and Nightcare provides home care visits from one hour, waking nights, sleep-ins, 24-hour care and fully managed live-in care from £1,550 a week. Care starts with a free assessment, a written quote and a written care plan. A relief carer covers a live-in carer’s holidays and time off, and a manager is on call.

Care can be paid for privately, by Oxfordshire County Council (including direct payments) or by NHS Continuing Healthcare. We have provided Discharge to Assess (D2A) care since 2014. If someone is coming home from hospital, tell us the expected discharge date. Our care team is on 01865 715780.

Arranging care and funding in Abingdon

Oxfordshire County Council runs adult social care. To ask for a care needs assessment, call the Social and Health Care team on 01865 519800 (Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 5pm, Friday 8.30am to 4pm) or use the council’s online form; someone else can ask on your behalf. For urgent emergencies out of hours, the Emergency Duty Team is on 0800 833 408.

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A free financial assessment follows if you are eligible: with more than £23,250 in savings and investments you would usually pay the full cost, though your home is not counted for care at home. See council funding for care.

Carers Oxfordshire does carer’s assessments with the county council: call the CarersLine on 01235 424715 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) or complete the form online. There is no charge.

The Vale of White Horse District Council collects council tax. It does not count someone who is severely mentally impaired, or a carer looking after a disabled person who is not their spouse, partner or child under 18. Its reduction for disabilities scheme bills a home one band lower if it has a room, extra bathroom or kitchen, or wheelchair space needed by a disabled resident. Its means-tested Council Tax Reduction Scheme helps people on a low income with less than £16,000 in savings, unless they get the guarantee credit part of Pension Credit. You apply for each, online or on a paper form from the council. See council tax discounts for care.

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Abingdon

• Minor injuries: the Minor Injuries Unit at Abingdon Community Hospital, Marcham Road, is open every day from 10am to 10.30pm, with no referral needed, for injuries from the last seven days that are not life-threatening. X-ray for its patients runs at set times. It is not an A&E.
• A&E: the Emergency Department at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington, Oxford, is open 24 hours.

Oxford University Hospitals starts planning discharge when someone is admitted, and families arrange transport home unless the patient meets strict medical criteria for hospital transport.

Abingdon Community Hospital is often part of the journey home. The Oxfordshire Stroke Rehabilitation Unit there is a 20-bed unit for people registered with an Oxfordshire GP, taking referrals from acute stroke units only, and Abbey Ward provides rehabilitation beds. Over-65s can be referred by their GP to its geriatric medicine clinic on Thursday afternoons. Our guide to stroke recovery at home covers the next steps.

Back home, Home First Oxfordshire’s reablement is free short-term help to regain independence, arranged by a professional. If needs are mainly health needs, ask about NHS Continuing Healthcare: NHS Thames Valley ICB’s Oxfordshire adults team is on 0118 982 2900.

Local help in Abingdon

Carers' services, dementia support, transport, befriending and other local help, with phone numbers.

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• Memory worries. The GP can refer to Oxford Health’s memory clinic at the Mental Health Centre on the community hospital site. Dementia Oxfordshire’s support line is 01865 410 210 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm); everyone with a diagnosis living at home is matched with a dementia adviser.
• Day opportunities. Abingdon Community Support Service at Crabtree Place, off Audlett Drive, runs weekdays 9.30am to 3.30pm for adults including people living with dementia, with accessible transport; places are mostly arranged through Adult Social Care.
• Advice and company. Age UK Oxfordshire runs an information drop-in at Abingdon Library, The Charter, on the last Tuesday of the month (10.30am to noon), and a lunch club at The Roaring Raindrop, Midget Close, on the first Tuesday, noon to 1.30pm.
• Foot care. Age UK Oxfordshire’s footcare clinic at the Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, is for over-50s who cannot cut their own toenails: £26, book on 01865 717615.
• Getting about. The Abingdon and District Volunteer Centre Car Scheme (01235 522438, weekdays 10am to 12.30pm) takes people with limited mobility to health appointments. Oxfordshire Comet (01865 323201) offers bookable door-to-door journeys across the county.
• Anything else: the Live Well Oxfordshire helpline, 01235 849410.

What may change soon

On 29 October 2026 the Government said it is minded to replace Oxfordshire’s councils with three unitary councils from 1 April 2029, with most of the Vale of White Horse joining South Oxfordshire and West Berkshire in a new Ridgeway Council. This is proposed, not confirmed. Until then, the county council arranges adult social care and the Vale collects council tax.