Live-in care in Minehead

How we arrange live-in care in Minehead

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

Somerset Council runs adult social care in Minehead. To ask for a care needs assessment, call 0300 123 2224 (Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm), or use the council’s online Public Referral to Adult Social Care form, for yourself or someone else. The needs assessment is free, and anyone can ask for one. To speak to a social worker out of hours, call 0300 123 23 27. You can also talk to someone from Adult Social Care at a Talking Café.

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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 in full, though the home is not counted for care at home. People paying their own way are asked to contact the council as soon as their savings drop to £30,000; if they ask the council to arrange care, it will normally charge an arrangement fee. See council funding for care.

A family carer can ask for a carer’s assessment on the same number. Free equipment appointments at the Independent Living Centre in Taunton are booked on the same number.

Somerset Council also collects council tax. Someone who is severely mentally impaired, and a carer living in the home, may not be counted, and there is a disabled band reduction for adapted homes. See council tax discounts for care.

Urgent care and leaving hospital in Minehead

• Urgent treatment centre: Minehead Community Hospital, Luttrell Way (01643 701715), open seven days a week 8am to 9pm (last patient 8pm), with X-ray on weekdays from 9am to 5pm. It is not an A&E; it can close early, so check NHS 111 first.
• A&E: Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, open 24 hours every day.
• Stroke rehabilitation: Williton Community Hospital, North Road, gives countywide stroke rehabilitation on Meadow Ward (01984 635600); see our stroke recovery guide.

Before your relative leaves hospital, ask the ward staff, who can arrange for someone from Adult Social Care to see them. The council’s Health Interface Service works with the Somerset Home First model: reablement at home or a short stay in a reablement unit. Its team talks with your relative and the family, and agrees a care and support plan with them. Home First is free for no longer than six weeks. At Minehead Community Hospital, Exmoor Ward takes inpatients (general enquiries 01643 701701).

If needs are mainly health needs, ask about NHS Continuing Healthcare: NHS Somerset’s team is on 01935 38 5233, option 1 (option 4 for Fast Track). For NHS transport to appointments, the Patient Transport Advice Centre is on 01278 727444 (weekdays 8.30am to 6.30pm).

Local help in Minehead

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

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• Memory worries. The GP can refer to Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s Dementia Assessment and Support Service (Taunton and West Somerset team 0300 124 5606, weekdays 9am to 5pm). Minehead Dementia Action runs a Memory Café for people with dementia or memory loss and their carers, family and friends on alternate Thursdays, 10.30am to noon, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Hall, Townsend Road. Its Della’s Diners lunch club meets at the Beach Hotel on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12.30pm to 3pm (£9 for two courses; booking essential, details on the charity’s website). Dementia Support Somerset is on 01458 251541. See live-in care for dementia.
• Getting about. ATWest (01643 709701) in Minehead runs shopping buses and the West Somerset Car Scheme: volunteer drivers, mainly for health appointments, including hospitals in Taunton, Exeter and Bristol; book through ATWest at least 48 hours ahead and ask about the mileage cost. The West Somerset Slinky bookable bus is booked on 01643 707090 (weekdays 9am to 4pm), at least 24 hours and up to two weeks ahead, once you have registered.
• Carers. Somerset Carers Service is free for unpaid carers aged 18 and over (Advice Line 0800 31 68 600).
• Hospice care. St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a community team in Minehead and gives free care. Its 24-hour Advice Line, 01823 333822 or 01935 709480, is for anyone with a life-limiting illness registered with a Somerset GP.
• Advice and company. Age UK Somerset (01823 345610) offers free advice, a free benefits check for over-60s and a free volunteer Wellbeing Service for over-60s who live alone.