Live-in care and home care in Henley-on-Thames

How we arrange care in Henley-on-Thames

In Henley 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 Henley-on-Thames

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; there is no charge.

South Oxfordshire District Council collects council tax. It does not count a carer looking after a disabled person who is not their spouse, partner or child under 18 (it calls this the live-in carer discount), or someone who is severely mentally impaired. Its reduction for disabilities scheme bills the home one band lower where it has a room, extra bathroom or kitchen, or wheelchair space a disabled resident needs. See council tax discounts for care.

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Henley-on-Thames

• Minor injuries: the minor injuries unit at Townlands Memorial Hospital, York Road, is open every day with no referral needed, for injuries from the last seven days. Oxford Health’s pages give 9am to 9.30pm on one and 10am to 10.30pm on another, so check opening times or call 111 before you go. It is not an A&E.
• A&E: the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Craven Road, Reading, has an Emergency Department, which the NHS website lists as open 24 hours. Oxfordshire’s main A&E is the John Radcliffe in Headington, open 24 hours.

Wherever your relative is treated, make sure the ward knows their home is in Oxfordshire, because that is the council that arranges their social care.

Townlands has no inpatient beds. It does have X-ray on weekday daytimes and a Rapid Access Care Unit, Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, which takes referrals from any healthcare professional and aims to see people the same or next working day. Oxford University Hospitals starts planning discharge when someone is admitted, and a community hospital bed, if needed, is the first one available, which may not be the nearest. Families arrange transport home unless the patient meets strict medical criteria for hospital transport.

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 Henley-on-Thames

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 service; its nearest clinics are in Wallingford and Thame. The Christ Church memory café (01491 577733) and Bluebells Day Centre (07931 980 597) both meet at 46 Reading Road.
• A hot lunch. The Henley 60+ Social Club in Market Place serves a two-course lunch on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 12.30pm (£10 for members, £12 for others, as listed). Christ Church’s Open House lunch club runs on Thursdays, noon to 2pm, with no need to book (£8 or £10).
• Getting about. The Henley Handybus (01491 571974) can bring people to the 60+ club and runs twice a month to Reading. Henley Volunteer Drivers (01491 572923 or 07743 793080, weekdays 10.15am to noon) cover Henley, Rotherfield Greys and Peppard, Bix and Assendon, Stonor, Shiplake and Nettlebed.
• End of life. Sue Ryder’s Hospice at Home, community nursing and care coordination cover Henley (0118 950 5276); a GP or hospital consultant refers.
• 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 South Oxfordshire joining a new Ridgeway Council. This is proposed, not confirmed. Until then, the county council arranges adult social care and South Oxfordshire District Council collects council tax.