Home Care in Belmont, Sutton (SM2)

Yes, we provide home care in Belmont. Belmont is at the far southern edge of London and a long way from our Lewisham office, so a live-in carer is the arrangement we can offer most reliably; regular visits are possible only when we have a carer living nearby, so ask us. Everything starts with a free assessment at home and a written care plan.

Coming home from the Marsden or the Malvern Centre

Belmont is unusual among London neighbourhoods because a major hospital campus sits in the middle of its houses. The Royal Marsden's Sutton site on Downs Road is a specialist cancer hospital, and next to it on Cotswold Road is the old Sutton Hospital site, where Epsom and St Helier runs the Malvern Centre for outpatient and community services. Together they are planned as the London Cancer Hub. Neither has an A&E, so an emergency admission still usually means St Helier Hospital in Carshalton.

For a Belmont family, the campus shapes what care at home looks like. Someone may be living with cancer and travelling to appointments a few streets away, or coming home after treatment tired and needing help with washing, meals and medication prompts. Later on, some people want palliative care at home, with carers working alongside the community nurses and palliative team from Sutton Health and Care. Tell us about the treatment plan at the assessment, so the care plan fits around clinic days.

Belmont's streets and houses

Belmont village grew up along the A217 Brighton Road, with its own small parade of independent shops and restaurants on Station Road. The station was called California when it opened in 1865, after a local pub, and took the name Belmont ten years later. Most homes are interwar and Edwardian semis and detached houses with gardens. There are also the art deco Chilterns flats on Brighton Road, and Belmont Heights, built on the site of the former Belmont Hospital west of Brighton Road.

Family houses usually have the spare bedroom a live-in carer needs, and room for a stairlift or a bed downstairs if the stairs become too much. Newer flats on old hospital land tend to have lifts and level thresholds, which makes wheelchairs, hoists and walk-in showers easier to fit.

Getting to Belmont

Belmont station is on the Southern branch from Sutton to Epsom Downs, one stop south of Sutton. The S3 bus stops at the Royal Marsden, and the 80 and 280 run between Sutton town centre and Belmont. From Lewisham, a carer would take a train into London Bridge, another out to Sutton, then the branch train or a bus: well over an hour each way. That is why we are careful about promising daily visits here.

How do I get council-funded home care in Belmont?

Belmont is in the London Borough of Sutton, so start with Sutton Adult Social Care. Complete the online care needs checklist on the council's request a care needs assessment page, or phone 020 8770 5000 (9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday). The council says it usually helps people with under £23,250 in savings; above that you can still ask it to arrange care, but you pay the full cost. If care needs come mainly from a health condition, for example late-stage cancer, ask the clinical team about NHS Continuing Healthcare and fast-track funding at the end of life before assuming the council route applies. Our Sutton home care page covers the council process, and our paying for care guide explains Continuing Healthcare. For private care we give a written quote after the assessment.

Live-in care and short breaks

Treatment at the Marsden often comes in cycles, with harder weeks after each one. A live-in carer who is already in the house can do more in those weeks and step back in the better ones, without anyone having to re-book visits, and distance from Lewisham makes no difference once they have moved in. If a partner is doing the caring through a course of treatment, a live-in carer can also cover a week or two while they rest (see respite care). For adults who need a supported setting, our Kingston supported living home is the nearest of our three homes and can take short stays.

What we can help with in Belmont

• Personal care, washing and dressing
• Medication prompting and support
• Meals, laundry and home help
• Companionship and getting out
• Dementia care at home
• Support after a hospital stay
• Short breaks for family carers
• Live-in care when needs grow