Live-in care in Petersfield

How we arrange live-in care in Petersfield

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

Hampshire County Council’s Adults’ Health and Care, not the district council, arranges adult social care in Petersfield. 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. 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.

East Hampshire District Council collects council tax (01730 234400). Its discounts page covers a reduction for a severely mentally impaired person, a disregard for a carer looking after someone who gets a qualifying benefit such as Attendance Allowance, and a band reduction where a disabled resident needs an extra room with certain features or a wheelchair indoors. See our guide to council tax discounts for care.

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Petersfield

• Urgent treatment centre: Petersfield Hospital, Swan Street, 8am to 8pm every day (X-ray 9am to 4pm). Book through NHS 111 to cut the wait; people who walk in are assessed by a triage nurse. It is not an A&E.
• A&E: Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Portsmouth, open 24 hours.

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.

Petersfield Hospital is often part of the journey home. Cedar Ward has 21 beds for frailty, rehabilitation and end-of-life care (02382 310550); Rowan Ward is closed. The Laurel Assessment Unit gives older people a rapid assessment, 8am to 5pm (023 8231 0590). Age Concern Hampshire’s Hospital to Home service works with patients on community hospital wards to support a safe discharge, and makes follow-up calls once they are home (01962 868545).

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.

Local help in Petersfield

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

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• Memory worries. Winton House Centre, 18 High Street, holds a Memory Café on the third Wednesday of each month, 2.30pm to 4pm, in its dementia-friendly community café. Its Active Dementia exercise group, for people with dementia and their carers, meets on the first Wednesday, 2.30pm to 4pm (a £2.50 donation includes tea). Its information desk can point families to other help (01730 266046). Dementia Support Hampshire & IOW gives free peer support and practical help (0344 324 6589, weekdays 9am to 5pm).
• Lifts to appointments. Petersfield Voluntary Care Group’s volunteer drivers cover Petersfield, Sheet, Steep, Stroud, Ramsdean and Froxfield; bookings are mainly handled by Winton House. Suggested donations from 1 September 2026 include £4 to Petersfield Hospital and £20 to Queen Alexandra, for a return journey with up to two hours’ wait.
• Minibus. Connect East Hampshire runs wheelchair-accessible minibuses from home, with fares below local bus fares and helpers free; its Wednesday service links Bordon and nearby villages with Petersfield. Book at least seven days ahead on 01420 475759.
• A hot lunch. Age Concern Petersfield’s lunch club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon at the Petersfield Community Centre: £7 for two courses, with door-to-door minibus transport for £5. Ask by email at info@ageconcernpetersfield.org.uk; its office is at Winton House Centre, 18 High Street.
• 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 at home. The Rosemary Foundation’s free Hospice at Home service is for adults with a life-limiting condition who are approaching the end of life (nurses and carers 01730 269996; office 01730 266329).

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.