Enter and View - Acute Medical Unit (The Rotherham Foundation Trust)
What is an Enter and View?
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 legislation allows Enter and View activity to be undertaken on premises where health and social care is publicly funded, such as hospitals, residential homes, GP practices, dental surgeries, optometrists and pharmacies. We visit:
To gather the views of health and social care service users, families and carers.
To report what we see and hear to providers, regulators, Local Authority and NHS commissioners and quality assurers, the public, Healthwatch England and any other relevant partners to improve the quality of health and social care services.
To develop insights and recommendations across multiple visits to inform strategic decision making at local and national levels.
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 legislation allows Enter and View activity to be undertaken on premises where health and social care is publicly funded, such as hospitals, residential homes, GP practices, dental surgeries, optometrists and pharmacies. We visit:
To gather the views of health and social care service users, families and carers.
To report what we see and hear to providers, regulators, Local Authority and NHS commissioners and quality assurers, the public, Healthwatch England and any other relevant partners to improve the quality of health and social care services.
To develop insights and recommendations across multiple visits to inform strategic decision making at local and national levels.
On Friday 4th July 2025, Four of our trained Enter & View representatives visited AMU (Acute Medical unit) to assess the facilities, to understand how people feel to be a patient within this unit, and along with how it feels to be a staff members in there too.
AMU has 27 beds within their single sex bays. Most patients arrive at the ward from the Urgent and Emergency Care Centre and the department aims to have patients discharged within a few hours or moved onto a more appropriate ward, such as the Short Stay Unit which is at the opposite end of the ward.
Read our full report here
