The company employs about 1,500 people across the UK and is based in Leicestershire, it finds and supplies a wide range of equipment from wheelchairs and hoists to hospital beds and pendants which monitor falls.

With a site in Lisburn, the company also maintains and repairs equipment.

NRS Healthcare’s accounts say it suffered a costly cyber attack last year and it is also understood to have been losing money on some of its contracts with councils.

Like other firms, it will have been juggling the impact of inflation and rising costs, including employer’s national insurance.