{"id":308513,"date":"2025-08-01T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308513\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:06:10","slug":"nrs-healthcare-call-for-back-up-plan-as-wheelchair-company-set-to-go-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308513\/","title":{"rendered":"NRS Healthcare: Call for back-up plan as wheelchair company set to go bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With a site in Lisburn, the company also maintains and repairs equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NRS Healthcare&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like other firms, it will have been juggling the impact of inflation and rising costs, including employer&#8217;s national insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company employs about 1,500 people across the UK and is based in Leicestershire, it finds and supplies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-308513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114952011009919201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}