205:. In 2012 it acquired Independent Living Services Scotland and launched Mears Nurseplus, enabling the company to offer health services as well as social care. Nurseplus (specialising in the care of adult and paediatric service users with complex health conditions, both acute and chronic that require clinical intervention and management) was awarded a place on the NHS framework contract to supply staff into NHS establishments across Scotland in November 2014.
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three fellow asylum seekers, two hotel staff and a responding police officer with a knife. Adam was shot dead by armed police officers but the six stabbing victims survived. A report by the
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