Live-in care in Hythe

How we arrange live-in care in Hythe

Day and Nightcare provides fully managed live-in care in Hythe 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 Hythe

Hampshire County Council’s Adults’ Health and Care, not New Forest District Council, arranges adult social care in Hythe. 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.

New Forest District Council collects council tax in Hythe and Dibden. 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 Hythe

• Urgent treatment centres: Lymington New Forest Hospital, walk in 8am to 9pm, 365 days a year; and the Royal South Hants Hospital in Southampton, 7.30am to 10pm on weekdays and 8am to 10pm at weekends (last patient 9.30pm; walk in or book through NHS 111). Neither is an A&E.
• A&E: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, open 24 hours.
• Hythe Hospital, Beaulieu Road (023 8231 8400), runs diabetes, falls, leg ulcer and pain clinics and community nursing. No minor injuries service is listed. Parking is free, and the Bluestar 8 bus stops outside.

At Southampton General, beds should be free by 11am on the day of discharge, and families arrange transport home, which from Hythe is worth planning early. The hospital asks families to say early whether they can help with care at first. Recovery may continue at Lymington New Forest Hospital, which has five inpatient wards, including stroke and general rehabilitation.

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 is on 0300 123 4448, option 4 for people with a Hampshire GP.

Local help in Hythe

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

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• Day care. The Horrill Care and Wellbeing Centre in Dibden offers day care four days a week, with door-to-door transport in Dibden and Hythe (07842 306029; see the questions below). It also hosts Age Concern Hampshire’s lunch club, open to everyone: a two-course hot lunch with drinks for £9, booked in advance on 07842 306028.
• Memory worries. Dementia Support Hampshire & IOW gives free peer support, practical advice and outings to people with dementia and family carers (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 the Waterside on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 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). The council does not issue walking aids, wheelchairs or pressure cushions: ask the GP surgery.
• Hospice care. Oakhaven Hospice gives free care at home and in the hospice for people in 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.