Live-in care in Fordingbridge

How we arrange live-in care in Fordingbridge

Day and Nightcare provides fully managed live-in care in Fordingbridge and the villages around it, 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 Fordingbridge

Hampshire County Council’s Adults’ Health and Care, not New Forest District Council, arranges adult social care in Fordingbridge, wherever the hospital is. 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; emergencies out of hours 0800 169 1577), which also gives unpaid carers free information, support and help with an emergency plan.

New Forest District Council collects council tax in Fordingbridge. Our guide to council tax discounts for care explains the national discounts to ask it about, such as the severe mental impairment disregard.

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Fordingbridge

• A&E: Salisbury District Hospital, Odstock Road, Salisbury, has an Emergency Department open 24 hours; its trust cares for people in Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire. The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, which serves part of the New Forest, also has an A&E, open 24 hours, and an urgent treatment centre open 8am to midnight (patients accepted until 10pm; call NHS 111 first). Its main number is 01202 303626.
• Urgent treatment centre: Lymington New Forest Hospital, walk in 8am to 9pm, 365 days a year, for urgent minor injuries and illnesses. It is not an A&E.
• Fordingbridge Hospital (01425 651414) runs physiotherapy, occupational therapy and orthopaedic clinics. It has no inpatient beds or minor injuries service.

At Salisbury District Hospital, people ready to leave can wait in the discharge lounge, open Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm, for transport. University Hospitals Dorset gives at least a two-week supply of any medicines needed, with no prescription charge.

Wherever the hospital is, social care comes from Hampshire County Council. The discharge team may ask the 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, what counts is the GP: anyone registered with a Hampshire GP contacts NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight on 0300 123 4448, option 4.

Local help in Fordingbridge

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

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• Company. Age Concern Hampshire’s Fordingbridge social group meets at Riverside Court, West Street, on Tuesdays from 11am to 1pm, for a suggested donation of £2 (01962 868545).
• Memory worries. Dementia Support Hampshire & IOW runs a weekly support and social group at Trinity United Church Hall, 51 Christchurch Road, Ringwood, on Wednesdays from 1pm to 3pm (0344 324 6589, weekdays 9am to 5pm). Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Support Service New Forest gives people with dementia, their carers and families personalised help and advice, face to face or by phone (023 8061 0159, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm). See live-in dementia care.
• Getting about. Connect New Forest’s wheelchair-accessible minibuses collect registered passengers from home and serve Fordingbridge on Wednesdays, between 9.15am and 2.45pm. Book with the office on 01425 461751 (weekdays, 9am to 3pm).
• 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. Oakhaven Hospice in Lymington gives free palliative care at home and in the hospice across the Totton, Waterside and New Forest area, after a referral by the GP or another healthcare professional (24-hour line 01590 670346).

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.