The UK market for outsourced Community Equipment and Technology Enabled Care services, has seen the collapse of Medequip’s competitor NRS Healthcare, which ceased trading on 1 August 2025.
Medequip was approached by a number of NRS contract commissioners from local authorities across the country, to step in and maintain the critical service that people require.
Medequip have agreed to provide services in 8 local authority areas.
The new services will be developed to support both urgent and routine equipment needs. However, initially only critical and urgent services will be provided. This will include delivery of equipment to facilitate hospital discharges, and repair and replacement of critical equipment in use.
Medequip are in the process of transferring around 300 members of staff from NRS, undertaking training on our systems, and securing premises and vehicles to enable us to provide a full service as soon as feasible.
The Medequip website update can be found here.
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