• Key supplier to the NHS
  • Trusted by 19,000+ clinicians
  • Rated 4.8/5 by customers

Specialist seating for the NHS

Handcrafted specialist seating, seating audits, standardisation, business case support and UK-wide servicing for NHS trusts and community services.

Specialist seating for the NHS

Comfort your patients feel. Evidence your business case needs.

We have handcrafted specialist seating for the NHS since 1972. Today our chairs are in more than 80% of NHS hospital trusts, and we do far more than supply them: we audit your fleet, standardise it, write the justification, chase it through procurement, train your staff, and service it for years afterwards.

Made in Britain Justification templates included UK-wide engineers
Helping the NHS achieve its Long Term Plan
In NHS wards every day since 1972
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The problem

The most-used piece of equipment on the ward, and the least planned

Seating gets bought reactively, one chair at a time, by whoever has budget that week. Nobody owns it. So wards end up with dozens of chair types, no spares, no training, and patients who would rather stay in bed than sit in them.

Dozens of chair types, none quite right for the patient in front of you

Seating standardisation: fewer chair types, each covering a wider clinical range

Patients asking to go back to bed within twenty minutes, so mobilisation slips

Comfort designed in, so patients stay out of bed for longer

Pressure damage and manual handling risk from chairs that were never assessed

Free clinical assessments on your ward, and a full audit of every chair you own

Business cases rejected because there was no evidence to attach

Pre-filled justification templates and risk assessments, and we chase the approval through procurement for you

Chairs written off years early because no one could source a part

Modular parts and UK-wide engineers, so chairs last their full life

Budget spent again next year on the same problem

Service contracts with fixed fees, and one planned fleet instead of yearly firefighting

The full picture

What we actually do for the NHS

Most suppliers sell you a chair and send an invoice. Here is everything that comes with working with us. All of it is included, and none of it is an upsell. Everything here supports the 10 Year Health Plan shift of care closer to home, and its focus on getting better value from every pound the NHS spends. See everything that is included when your trust works with us.

Seating audits

We record every chair you own, its condition, location and clinical suitability, and hand you the database.

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Seating standardisation

A smaller range of chairs covering a wider clinical need. Fewer SKUs, less training, less waste, lower cost.

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Free clinical assessments

Our seating assessors come to the ward and assess with your team. No charge, no obligation.

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Free ward trials

Two-week trials of any chair, anywhere in the UK. We collect the staff feedback and give you the data.

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Business case support

Pre-filled justification forms, risk assessments, PAQs and seat sizing forms, written for your process.

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We manage the procurement process

We track the requisition, chase the approvals and follow up with procurement and finance on your behalf, so the order keeps moving without using your clinical time.

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Training for your staff

On-ward product training after delivery, plus CPD training sessions, webinars and lunch-and-learns.

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Servicing and repairs

UK-wide engineers, 3 to 5 year contracts, fixed fees, agreed service levels, modular spare parts.

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Storage and call-off

We hold your stock, deliver to ward level on call-off, track assets and remove old chairs for disposal.

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Co-design and R&D

The Lento Mobile was designed with Manchester University NHS FT to cut transfers. We build with clinicians, not at them.

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Not sure where to start?

Most trusts start with a free audit of one ward. It costs nothing and tells you what you actually own.

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Our flagship NHS programme

Seating standardisation

We pioneered seating standardisation in NHS hospitals, and it is still the single biggest change most trusts can make to their seating. The principle is simple: a smaller range of chairs with a wider clinical application, rather than the sprawl of one-off purchases most wards accumulate.

  • Proven cost, time and risk savings
  • Less training, because staff learn fewer chairs
  • Fewer spares to hold, modular parts across the range
  • Right chair available when the patient arrives, not three days later
Hospital chairs designed for seating standardisation
Getting it through the system

We write the paperwork, and we chase it for you

The hardest part of getting the right chair is rarely choosing it. It is getting it approved. So we give your finance and procurement teams the documents they ask for, pre-filled, for every product we make, and then we follow the requisition through the system so it does not sit waiting on somebody’s desk.

  • Justification templates for every chair in the range
  • Pre-filled PAQs, PQQs and risk assessments
  • Seat sizing and prescription forms
  • Product information packs curated by department
  • We chase approvals and follow up with procurement on your behalf
  • Contract lease, lease purchase and hire, if capital is the blocker
The plan

Three steps to seating that works

1

Tell us what is going wrong

One call with our NHS team. No pitch. We will tell you honestly whether we can help, and what it would involve.

2

Trial it on your ward, free

We bring the chairs to you for two weeks, gather your staff feedback, and give you the data whether you buy or not.

3

We handle the rest

Justification, chasing the approval, delivery, ward-level call-off, staff training and servicing. You get one point of contact throughout.

Why trusts stay with us

Fifty-four years of getting this right

80%+ of NHS trusts

Our chairs are in critical care, older people's wards, oncology, PICU, rehab and stroke units across the UK.

19,000+ clinicians

Tissue viability, manual handling, therapies, infection control and clinical procurement teams.

Made in Britain

Handcrafted in Yorkshire since 1972, with in-house technicians and modular parts kept in stock.

Working to net zero

Supporting the Greener NHS programme, with our own carbon-neutral target and reuse-first design.

Every chair above is in NHS use today, and all are available for a free two-week ward trial. See seating by hospital department.

In their words

What NHS teams tell us

Staff have access to appropriate chair for patient as soon as they arrive on the ward

Derbyshire Community Health Services
NHS Foundation Trust

The seating range is vast and the team have been very responsive and helpful throughout the process

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
NHS Foundation Trust

Positioning patients has been so easy, and has definitely improved image quality

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
NHS Foundation Trust

Guidance for NHS teams

View all insights

Preventing deconditioning is the reason most of this matters. Read our evidence hub: Deconditioning in hospital, what it is and what prevents it.

Common questions

NHS teams usually ask

Are you on an NHS framework?

Yes. Details of the routes available to you, including framework and direct routes, are set out on our NHS procurement page. If you are not sure which route your trust uses, call us and we will work it out with you.

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Book a free ward trial

Two weeks, your ward, your patients, your staff verdict. We collect the feedback and hand you the data whether you buy from us or not.

Helping the NHS achieve its Long Term Plan
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