Live-in care and home care in Chipping Norton

How we arrange care in Chipping Norton

In Chipping Norton 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 Chipping Norton

Adult social care is run by Oxfordshire County Council. 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 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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If your relative is eligible, a free financial assessment follows: above £23,250 in savings you would usually pay the full cost, and the home is not counted for care at home. See council funding for care. Family carers can ask Carers Oxfordshire (01235 424715, weekdays 9am to 5pm) for a carer’s assessment, free of charge.

West Oxfordshire District Council sends the council tax bill. It does not count people who care for an elderly or disabled person living with them, or someone who is severely mentally impaired. It also offers a disabled band reduction where the home has an extra room or space a disabled person needs. See council tax discounts for care.

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Chipping Norton

• First aid unit: run by South Central Ambulance Service at the War Memorial Hospital site, Russell Way: weekdays 5pm to 9pm, and 10am to 9pm at weekends and on bank holidays. Call NHS 111 before going; it has no X-ray and is not an A&E.
• Minor injuries: the nearest minor injuries unit is at Witney Community Hospital, every day 10am to 10.30pm, with no referral needed.
• A&E: there is none in West Oxfordshire. The nearest are the Horton General Hospital in Banbury and the John Radcliffe in Headington, Oxford, both open 24 hours.

Oxford University Hospitals starts planning discharge when someone is admitted. A community hospital bed, if needed, is the first one available, which may not be the nearest, and families arrange transport home unless the patient meets strict medical criteria for hospital transport. Chipping Norton War Memorial Hospital runs outpatient clinics, including gerontology, memory, heart failure and Parkinson’s physiotherapy, but Oxford Health lists no inpatient ward there. The nearest community beds are at Witney Community Hospital, where the Linfoot and Wenrisc wards provide rehabilitation and end-of-life care.

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 Chipping Norton

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

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• Memory worries. Oxford Health holds a memory clinic at the War Memorial Hospital on Thursday mornings, by GP referral. Dementia Oxfordshire (01865 410 210) holds a monthly clinic at Southerndown Care Home, by appointment; for a lift, the All Together in Charlbury call centre (01993 776277) may help.
• Company. Age UK Oxfordshire’s Chatterbox meets at the Lower Town Hall, Market Place, on the second Tuesday of the month, 10am to 11.30am. Connect Café at The Branch, 16 Market Place, is free on Tuesday afternoons, 1pm to 2.30pm, with a help desk for forms and benefits.
• Foot care. Age UK Oxfordshire’s footcare clinic at Gylme Hall, Burford Road, on Wednesdays, is for over-50s who cannot cut their own toenails: £26, book on 01865 717615.
• Getting about. The Villager bus and Chippy Shuttle (01608 811617), Volunteer Link-up (01993 776277) for volunteer drivers, and Oxfordshire Comet (01865 323201) for door-to-door trips.
• End of life. Sobell House (01865 225860) provides palliative care across Oxfordshire, including at home. Katharine House Hospice (01295 811866) accepts referrals from the GP for patients of Chipping Norton Health Centre.
• Not sure where to start? The Live Well Oxfordshire helpline is on 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 West Oxfordshire joining a new North Oxfordshire Council. This is proposed, not confirmed. Until then, the county council arranges adult social care and West Oxfordshire District Council collects council tax.