Bendigo Nursing Home is a small home located in the Upperton area of Eastbourne, and is registered to provide nursing care for up to 25 people. People who live in our home require assistance with a range of nursing and personal care needs, with some needing support about living with memory loss and dementia. The care provided is individualised and person-centred.

The home is registered with the independent regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and has been consistently rated good on all the key areas of regulation, safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well-led service.

Our residents, team, relatives, and friends are all part of our big family with effective lines of communication and quick responses to your needs and wishes.

We provide a high standard of coordinated care, treatment, and support in homely and comfortable surroundings. Each room is tastefully decorated to a very high standard and is equipped with an electric profiling bed, remote-control colour TV and easy to use staff call system.

Our aim is to create a happy and homely environment, ensuring residents are at the centre of the care we provide and their wishes are respected and met by liaising with their relatives, friends, legal representatives, GPs, and other professionals as necessary. Residents’ wishes and interests are always of paramount importance.

We also offer a number of regular activities (organised activities within the home, special events such as Birthdays, Christmas, and Easter etc.). All residents are encouraged to participate so that any skills lost through illness, for example, may be regained and they can enjoy as full physical and mental recovery as possible.

We also organise other services such as hairdressing in our stylish hairdressing salon, chiropodist, daily newspapers, dentist, optician, etc., to ensure all the needs of the residents are met.

We have open visiting hours and are delighted for our residents to receive visitors at any time, and they are always welcome to have tea or coffee and biscuits.

We have an extensive menu that caters also for special diets. A fresh fruit basket is provided for our residents in the dining and sitting rooms and sherry is also offered as a ‘warmer’ during winter afternoons and as an aperitif before lunch.

We offer a range of accommodations such as single and double rooms for couples. Most if not all of our residents are unable to use en-suite facilities. We provide service to people who are self–funded (pay the full amount of their fee, not including FNC (Funded Nursing Contribution), as well as to people who are partly funded by Local Authority / Adult Social Care. Our fees are determined by the amount and type of care required and the specific room chosen. The fees range from £1,300 per week, depending on the room and level of care needs. Fees are inclusive of 24 hours’ co-ordinated care, treatment, and support, accommodation, food, laundry service, etc..

This is what our residents and their families said about us:

“A happy home – my mother arrived at Bendigo in July and since then she has improved so much from the confused tired and weak person who was sent there after many falls and months of hospitalisation. She has received so much love care and attention at Bendigo so she is now really happy and her speech has improved as well as her walking ability. The staff are a bright cheerful bunch who interact with the residents well and keep them motivated with activities … . Their care and attention are the best available and every attention to medical needs are given when needed. The home is light, bright and well – furnished and very clean with a good chef serving up a choice of foods at each meal. The whole family are very impressed and visitors are welcomed anytime.”

“I viewed a few homes through Sussex and I came across Bendigo, Nothing compared to Bendigo. The staff are jolly and carry out their duties with exemplary care. The home has a very homely feel and my grandmother is thriving and very happy here.”

“Since my aunt moved in Bendigo last summer her family have all been impressed by the kind compassionate care all the staff offer. She always says she is being looked after very well. I have personally been very happy with the good level of communication between staff and myself.”

“Since moving to Bendigo my mother’s health has improved and she is very happy. I have peace of mind that she is well cared for, happy and safe.”

“My Mum always says that she is “treated like a lady”. Can’t say any more than that. She is happy, respected and treated with dignity and kindness. Thank you”

“My mother is so happy at Bendigo and the staff are superb and very caring …”