Grant of Options

Surgical Innovations Group plc                         

                               Grant of Options                                

Surgical Innovations Group plc ("Surgical" or the "Company") announces that the
Company has today granted options to subscribe for 3,800,000 ordinary shares of
1p each to directors of the Company (the "New Options"). All of the New Options
are exercisable at a price of 1.7p at any time between 11 November 2009 and 11
November 2019.

The New Options granted to the directors of the Company are as follows:

Director                                          Number of New Options granted
                                                                               
Douglas Liversidge                                                      400,000
                                                                               
Graham Bowland                                                        2,200,000
                                                                               
Colin Glass                                                             400,000
                                                                               
Ray Simkins                                                             400,000
                                                                               
Professor Michael McMahon                                               400,000

In addition, the Company announces that the exercise prices of all of the
existing options granted to directors, with the exception of the options
granted on 27 January 2009 (the "January 2009 Options"), be rebased. As a
result the Company has cancelled and reissued 20,000,000 options to the
directors of Surgical (the "Rebased Options"). All the Rebased Options are now
exercisable at 1.7p at any time between 11 November 2009 and 11 November 2019.
The terms of the January 2009 Options are unchanged.

The resulting holdings of options by directors of Surgical are as follows:

Director                    New Options        January 2009     Rebased Options
                                                    Options                    
                                                                               
Douglas Liversidge              400,000           1,000,000           3,500,000
                                                                               
Graham Bowland                2,200,000           2,000,000           6,000,000
                                                                               
Colin Glass                     400,000           1,000,000           3,500,000
                                                                               
Ray Simkins                     400,000           1,000,000           3,500,000
                                                                               
Professor Michael               400,000           1,000,000           3,500,000
McMahon                                                                        
                                                                               

Enquiries:

Surgical Innovations Group plc                                   07715 612063
                                                                             
Graham Bowland                                                               
                                                                             
Hanson Westhouse Limited                                        0113 246 2610
                                                                             
Tim Feather / Matthew Johnson