Live-in care in Fareham

How we arrange live-in care in Fareham

Day and Nightcare provides fully managed live-in care in Fareham and across the borough, from £1,550 a week. One main carer lives in the home; a relief carer covers their holidays and time off, and a manager is on call. Care starts with a free assessment, a written quote and a written care plan.

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

Arranging care and funding in Fareham

Hampshire County Council’s Adults’ Health and Care, not Fareham Borough Council, arranges adult social care in Fareham. Call 0300 555 1386 (weekdays 8.30am to 5pm, Tuesdays from 9.30am, Fridays to 4.30pm; out of hours 0300 555 1373), or use the online referral form (weekdays 8am to 8pm, weekends 8.30am to 6.30pm), which the council recommends because phone waits can be long. The needs assessment is free, and anyone can ask for one. With more than £23,250 in savings your relative would usually pay the full cost of care, and the home is not counted when care is at home. Self-funders can ask the council to arrange care at home (if it agrees: £296 once, then £8.75 a week). Financial assessment queries: the council’s Financial Assessments and Benefits Team (01962 845600, if you cannot email). See council funding for care and direct payments.

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If you help a relative, you have a right to a carer’s assessment: the Princess Royal Trust for Carers carries them out for the county council through the Hampshire Carers Support Service (01264 311680), which also gives unpaid carers free information, support and help with an emergency plan.

Fareham Borough Council collects council tax (01329 824651, counciltax@fareham.gov.uk). Its pages explain the severe mental impairment discount or exemption, which needs a doctor’s certificate and a qualifying benefit; a carer disregard for someone, not a spouse or partner, who lives in the home and gives at least 35 hours of care a week to a person on a qualifying benefit such as Attendance Allowance; and Disabled Relief, which charges the next band down (a Band A home may get 16.5% off) after a Visiting Officer confirms the features. See our guide to council tax discounts for care.

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Fareham

• A&E: Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road, Cosham, open 24 hours.
• Urgent treatment centre: Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Bury Road, 8am to 10pm, run by Portsmouth Hospitals. Most visits need no appointment; NHS 111 can book an arrival time. It is not an A&E.
• Fareham Community Hospital, Brook Lane, Sarisbury (01489 587400), provides community services and clinics, including older people’s mental health. It is not an A&E.

Portsmouth Hospitals asks families to give ward staff, on admission, the details of services that will need rearranging before discharge, such as carers, to arrange transport home, and to ask for a copy of the discharge letter. The discharge team may also ask the county council’s hospital social work team to assess your relative. The council’s short-term services after hospital include reablement (free for up to six weeks) and the Rapid Support Service (free for up to 28 days).

For NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight’s All Age Continuing Care team for patients of Hampshire GPs is on 0300 123 4448, option 4.

Local help in Fareham

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

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• Memory worries. Dementia Support Hampshire & IOW runs a support and social group every Thursday, 1pm to 3pm, at Holy Trinity Church Hall, 132 West Street (0344 324 6589). The NHS community older people’s mental health team for Gosport and Fareham is on 02382 311820. See live-in dementia care.
• Day care. Age Concern Hampshire’s Lockswood Care and Wellbeing Centre in Centre Way, Locks Heath, offers later life and dementia day care, Monday to Friday, 10am to 3pm, with meals and optional door-to-door transport in Locks Heath and nearby (07842 306034).
• Company. Fareham Good Neighbours matches lonely or older people in Fareham with a volunteer befriender (07756 864961). The Stubbington and Hill Head Voluntary Care Group offers befriending, visiting, a sitting service, prescription collection and help with health transport for residents there (07832 330308). The council’s Wise Guide lists more local groups and lunch clubs. The Portchester Voluntary Care Group helps people in Portchester get to hospital and GP appointments and other health-related trips (07759 472473).
• Getting about. Connect Fareham and Gosport runs door-to-door minibuses for people who cannot use ordinary buses, 9.15am to 2.45pm on weekdays, for £6.20 return; helpers ride free. Membership is free but needs an application form. Book up to five working days ahead on 0333 015 1271 (weekdays, 8.30am to noon and 1pm to 3.30pm).
• Equipment. Free occupational therapy, which can include equipment, can be requested through the GP surgery or the county council; for care technology, the council recommends Argenti (01962 670721).
• Hospice care. The Rowans Hospice serves Portsmouth and South East Hampshire. Its care is free, and its Hospice at Home runs 24 hours a day on referral by a health or social care professional (023 9225 0001).

What may change soon

Hampshire’s council reorganisation is undecided: the Government withdrew its earlier decision in September 2026 and expects an outcome by early 2027. Until then, the councils named here stay responsible.