Injection and aesthetic medicine rooms, seated podiatry and chiropody, dermatology consultations, sports and musculoskeletal clinics and community or temporary clinics without a convenient socket suit the Katia-A10. The patient sits for a consultation, reclines for an injection or lies flat for a dressing, and the top turns to bring them to the clinician's working side. Its limits are part of the fit: height changes require pedal strokes, and it has no tilt for a patient who feels faint.
The case for a non-powered chair is mostly regulatory. HSE's guidance on maintaining portable electrical equipment, revised in 2013, calls the idea that every appliance needs a yearly test a myth, because the law asks only that electrical equipment be maintained to prevent danger. With no electrical parts, the Katia-A10 falls outside that requirement. PUWER 1998 still applies, and HSE expects inspection after installation, at intervals where deterioration could become dangerous and after any serious damage, with the interval set by risk assessment and the manufacturer's advice. Results are kept until the next inspection. No study has measured how often a hydraulic column or a gas spring needs attention, so the manufacturer's service schedule, shared by the enquiry team, sets the first interval.
In the UK, clinicians using the chair hold HCPC, NMC or GMC registration, and the CQC, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales and the RQIA regulate their services. Bought through NHS procurement routes, a non-powered chair still needs its declaration of conformity and a stated working capacity, and equivalent public procurement elsewhere asks the same. Themanufacturer issues the conformity documentation those procurement routes requir,r and the enquiry tea shares itm.



