Live-in care in Midsomer Norton

How we arrange live-in care in Midsomer Norton

Day and Nightcare provides fully managed live-in care in Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the villages around them, 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 Bath and North East Somerset 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 Midsomer Norton

Bath and North East Somerset Council runs adult social care in Midsomer Norton and also collects council tax. To ask for a care needs assessment, call 01225 394570 (Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 5pm, Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm). The needs assessment is free, and anyone can ask for one. The first call is an initial assessment over the phone, which can take up to 30 minutes. In the evenings, at weekends and on bank holidays, call the Emergency Duty Team on 01454 615165.

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If the council may help to pay, a financial assessment follows: with more than £23,250 in savings your relative would usually pay the full cost, and the home is not counted when care is at home. See council funding for care.

After a hospital stay, the council may first offer reablement: short-term help at home for up to six weeks, funded by the NHS and the council. If longer-term needs are identified sooner, an assessed weekly charge can start from the date the Care Act assessment is completed, so ask about timing.

A family carer can ask for a carer’s assessment on the same number, and no financial check is needed. The council suggests the BANES Carers’ Centre as the best place to start.

On council tax (01225 477 777), ask about:

• a severe mental impairment discount, or an exemption for someone living alone, with a GP’s certificate and a qualifying benefit such as Attendance Allowance
• a full-time carer who lives with the person is not counted on the bill
• a disabled band reduction where the home has been adapted

Midsomer Norton Library at The Hollies, High Street, has council self-service computers and phones, and a Citizens Advice drop-in on Wednesdays, 9.30am to 2pm.

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Midsomer Norton

• Minor injuries: Paulton Memorial Hospital, Salisbury Road, open every day 8am to 8pm (last entry 7.30pm), with X-ray on weekdays from 8.30am to 4pm. It is not an A&E.
• A&E: the Royal United Hospital (RUH) in Bath, open 24 hours as a walk-in service (01225 824391).

Discharge planning at the RUH starts as soon as someone is admitted, and patients are asked to plan from then too. The RUH asks patients to arrange to leave by 10am; hospital transport is only for clinical need. Patients waiting for medicines, transport or care that starts later wait in the Discharge Lounge (Building E6). The Community Wellbeing Hub’s team in the RUH Atrium (01225 821019) can help with support at home, and it also supports patients at Paulton. The hospital also has an NHS community inpatient unit for adults who need rehabilitation after illness, injury or a hospital stay, run by BSW Community Health (0300 247 0200, 8am to 8pm every day).

When health needs are the main issue, ask about NHS Continuing Healthcare. For Midsomer Norton it is arranged by NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB: email bswicb.chcassessreview@nhs.net (no phone number is published).

Local help in Midsomer Norton

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

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• Carers. The BANES Carers’ Centre’s freephone support line is 0800 0388 885 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 1pm).
• Memory and dementia. The GP can refer to the NHS Memory Clinic at the RUH, run by ReMind UK. The Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Support Bath and North East Somerset helps people with dementia and their carers, face to face or by phone (0117 472 7921, weekdays 9am to 5pm). See live-in care for dementia.
• Company and help at home. Age UK Bath & North East Somerset (01225 466135) runs social groups in Midsomer Norton with transport and lunch provided, and Singing for Fun at Orchard Hall on the last Tuesday of the month, 2.30pm to 4pm. It also offers up to six weeks of free help at home (Home Response).
• Getting about. Midsomer Norton and Radstock Dial-a-Ride (01761 417504) is for people who cannot easily use public transport, weekdays 8am to 4pm: membership is £15, then fares by distance from £7 single and £12 return (from £3.50 and £6 with a Diamond Travelcard).
• Hospice care. Dorothy House covers Bath and North East Somerset. All its services are free, including Hospice at Home (care at home in the later stages of life) and community palliative care teams, with a 10-bed inpatient unit at Winsley; you, a family member or a professional can refer through its Clinical Coordination Centre on 0345 0130 555.