Live-in care in Corby

How we arrange live-in care in Corby

Day and Nightcare provides fully managed live-in care in Corby 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 North Northamptonshire 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 Corby

North Northamptonshire Council runs adult social care and collects council tax in Corby. To ask for a care needs assessment, call 0300 126 3000 and select Option 1, Option 2 and Option 1, or use the online self-referral form (lines open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm). The same number reaches the Out-of-Hours Duty Team.

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A financial assessment follows. With savings above £23,250 a person usually pays the full cost, but for care at home their own home is not counted. If the council funds care, a direct payment lets you choose your own provider. See council funding for care.

If you look after someone, ask for a carer’s assessment, carried out for the council by Northamptonshire Carers (01933 677907, option 2, weekdays). The charity says carers of an adult living in Northamptonshire may be entitled to 48 hours of free emergency respite a year. On council tax, the council lists a carer disregard, the severe mental impairment disregard and exemption, and an exemption when someone moves permanently into a care home; see council tax discounts for care. For equipment at home, ask for an occupational therapy assessment on 0300 126 3000 (Option 1, Option 2, Option 2).

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Corby

• Urgent treatment: Corby Urgent Treatment Centre, Cottingham Road, is open 8am to 8pm every day, including bank holidays, with blood tests and X-ray on site. You can walk in, but its provider advises using NHS 111 first for an arrival time. It is not an A&E.
• A&E: Kettering General Hospital, Rothwell Road, open 24 hours.

At Kettering General, ask the medical team early for an approximate discharge date and tell the ward what support is already in place; hospital transport is only for patients who meet the criteria. Patients waiting for medicines or transport may move to its Discharge Lounge, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week (01536 491219).

After a hospital stay, these local services may be part of the plan:

• Corby Community Hospital, on Cottingham Road, has 20 rehabilitation beds, by referral from a hospital or specialist; visiting is 2pm to 4.30pm and 6pm to 8pm, two visitors at most.
• Thackley Green Specialist Care Centre, off Lewin Road in Great Oakley, is the council’s short-term specialist reablement centre, to help people live independently and avoid going back into hospital (01536 535683). Ask the ward team or adult social care whether it would suit your relative.
• Reablement North, the council’s home team, supports people at home for up to six weeks after a referral from a healthcare professional, free at the start.

If needs are mainly health needs, ask about NHS Continuing Healthcare: NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board’s All Age Continuing Care service is on 01604 347415 for anyone registered with a Northamptonshire GP.

Local help in Corby

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

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• Memory worries. For people over 65, the GP can refer to the NHS memory clinic at the Stuart Road Resource Centre (03000 274 949, weekdays 9am to 5pm). The Admiral Nurse service (07766 780203) takes self-referrals and runs free drop-in sessions for carers; the next in Corby is at Corby Library, the Corby Cube, on 18 November, 10am to 12pm. See dementia care at home.
• Hospice care. Lakelands Hospice on Butland Road offers free day services, hospice at home, bereavement support and a heart failure and COPD programme (01536 747859, weekdays 9am to 4.30pm).
• Bereavement. A free bereavement support group, for adults living in Northamptonshire bereaved in the past 18 months, meets at Lakelands Hospice on the third Wednesday of the month, 10.30am to 12.30pm; register on 01604 215839.
• Breathing problems. Northamptonshire Carers’ Breathing Space Café, for people living with COPD and other chronic lung conditions, meets at Beanfield Community Centre on the second Wednesday of each month, 10.30am to 12.30pm. Register first on 07495 093585.
• Getting about. Shire Connect’s accessible on-demand buses link the villages with Corby, Oundle, Thrapston and Rushden Lakes, Monday to Saturday, with no membership needed; book up to 24 hours ahead on its northern service line, 01933 224488 (7am to 10pm).