Live-in care in Wellingborough

How we arrange live-in care in Wellingborough

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

North Northamptonshire Council runs adult social care and collects council tax in Wellingborough. 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. The needs assessment is free, and anyone can ask for one.

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A financial assessment follows the needs assessment. 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, you can ask for a direct payment and choose your own provider. See council funding for care.

Northamptonshire Carers, which carries out carers’ assessments for the council, is based at the Anne Goodman Centre, 123 Midland Road (01933 677907, option 2, weekdays). It also runs a Carers Wellbeing Hub in Wollaston, at the Salvation Army Hall on the second Tuesday of the month, 1pm to 3pm.

For 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.

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Wellingborough

• A&E: Kettering General Hospital, Rothwell Road, open 24 hours.
• Not an A&E: Isebrook Hospital, Irthlingborough Road, is a community site with rehabilitation beds and clinics. For urgent problems that are not life-threatening, call NHS 111.

At Kettering General, ask the medical team early for an approximate discharge date and tell the ward about any support or equipment already in place. Hospital transport home is only for patients who meet the eligibility criteria. Patients waiting for transport or medicines may move to the Discharge Lounge, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week (01536 491219). Northamptonshire Carers has carer support workers at the hospital (01604 544274).

Isebrook Hospital is often the next step. Its Hazelwood Ward has 32 rehabilitation beds, including some for stroke patients, by referral from a hospital or specialist. Visiting is 2pm to 5pm and 6.30pm to 8pm, with no more than two visitors per patient at a time, and parking on site is free.

Back home, the council’s Reablement North team gives short-term support 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. Our guide to stroke recovery at home may help.

Local help in Wellingborough

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 York House, Isebrook Hospital (03000 272 344, weekdays 9am to 5pm). The trust’s Admiral Nurses give free support to families affected by dementia and take self-referrals (07766 780203). Alzheimer’s Society’s Northamptonshire dementia support service, for people with dementia, their carers and families, is on 01832 736670 (weekdays, 9am to 5pm). See dementia care at home.
• Getting about. Shire Connect at 1-3 Orient Way runs the members-only Wellibus (01933 223636), with pickups in Wellingborough Monday to Friday, Irchester and Wollaston on Tuesdays and Fridays, and Earls Barton, Finedon, Isham, Little Harrowden, Orlingbury and Overstone on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It also runs Shopmobility. Its volunteer Wellbeing Car scheme is closed to new members for now. The Wellingborough Volunteer Car Service is on 01933 272735.
• Advice. Age UK Northamptonshire gives free, independent information and advice to people aged 55 and over and their relatives and carers (01604 611200).
• Having your say. Healthwatch North Northamptonshire takes comments about local health and care services (03300 436 453, weekdays 9am to 4pm; post to the Victoria Centre, 46-50 Palk Road).