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# Vivid.Care launches ‘revolutionary’ bedside chair
- URL: https://med-techinsights.com/vivid-care-launches-revolutionary-bedside-chair/
- Published: 2025-02-05T11:38:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:47:49.000Z
- Description: After two years in the making, Vivid.Care has launched a ‘revolutionary’ bedside chair to solve endemic issues with current hospital ward seating. Vivid.Care has announced what it says is the biggest launch in the company’s history. The HiBack Bedside Chair brings together years of specialist seatin
- Author: Oliver Johnson
- Tags: Medical Device Manufacturing, News

###### ***After two years in the making, Vivid.Care has launched a ‘revolutionary’ bedside chair to solve endemic issues with current hospital ward seating.***

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[**Vivid.Care**](https://www.vivid.care/?ref=med-techinsights.com) has announced what it says is the biggest launch in the company’s history. The HiBack Bedside Chair brings together years of specialist seating knowledge and engineering expertise into one product says the company.

Through their expansion into the acute care sector, Vivid.Care received overwhelming feedback from NHS clinicians about the unsuitability of bedside seating on hospitals wards, and the detrimental impact this was having on patient comfort and recovery times.

The issues with existing high-back chairs centred around lack of customisation, poor pressure relief, awkward adjustment mechanisms, staff strain, transfer issues, and overall patient discomfort.

A leading Physiotherapist at a major hospital trust summed up the issue faced by nursing staff: “There is a lot of investment in clinical time trying to adjust the suitability of high-back chairs to meet an individual patient’s need and comfort, and we could benefit from this being cut out from therapy staff and ward staff clinical time. The time could be channelled into a more effective clinical session for the patient.”

On the strength of market feedback, Vivid.Care embarked on a major R&D project to create a new high back chair, working with engineers, designers and industry experts to inform and critique the design. Over the 2-year product development phase, each version was stress-tested and re-engineered, and trialled with different NHS Trusts until the desired end result was reached. The company have [documented the lengthy product development journey on their website](https://www.vivid.care/insights/product-news/the-product-development-journey-how-the-hiback-bedside-chair-was-created/?ref=med-techinsights.com).

The Vivid.Care R&D team have built a chair from first principles that fixes the issues faced by patients and staff, providing a next-generation seating solution for all hospital wards.

Vivid.Care’s R&D director, Graham Oliver, said: “Through our discussions with ward managers, moving & handling experts and Tissue Viability Nurses, the writing was on the wall with the current bedside chair offering. The discomfort and pressure issues were causing patient deconditioning and having a direct impact on discharge times. We cannot thank the experts enough who have guided us in our product development journey, scrutinising our designs from every angle to create this amazing bedside chair specially for acute care.”

The new bedside chair incorporates effortless height adjustment, superior levels of pressure care and patient ergonomics into one seating masterpiece.

Vivid.Care’s Managing Director, Tristan Hulbert, reports on their all-time product launch: “This is such an exciting time for Vivid.Care as we bring our bedside chair innovation to market, and a watershed moment for the entire industry. It’s time to put the issues of uncomfortable high back chairs behind us, and move forward into a new era where every hospital patient gets a chair that supports their recovery rather than hinders it!”