Interim Results - Highlights

Assura Group Limited
18 September 2007


18 September 2007

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              Assura Group

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                Assura Group Limited (the 'Company' or 'Group')

                   Unaudited Interim Results to 30 June 2007


Assura Group works in partnership with GPs and Health Professionals to deliver
property, pharmacy and medical services in primary care.

These unaudited interim results are in respect of the six month period to 30
June 2007.


Highlights:

•    Group operating profit £8.3m (2006: £7.2m)

•    Interim dividend up 17% to 2.33p(1) (2006: 2.00p)

•    Net assets up 7% to £286.5m equivalent to 123.2p per Share compared to 
     114.3p at 31 December 2006.

•    Eight joint ventures with GPs formed to provide out-patient and diagnostic 
     procedures to a population of circa 1m patients

•    15 (2006: 4) pharmacies open(2) - EBITDA positive at branch level this year

•    Invested or committed £493m (2006: £385m) across 135 sites of which 21 are 
     currently in solicitors' hands(2)

•    On track to have joint ventures providing services to 1.5m patients and 20 
     pharmacies by end 2007 and to invest or commit £600m on property by 31 
     March 2008


(1) Ex-dividend date 26 September 2007, record date 28 September 2007, payment
date 19 October 2007.

(2) As at 01 September 2007.


Commenting on the Results, Richard Burrell, Chief Executive of the Company,
said:

'The Company continues to evolve rapidly into a primary and community care
provider organisation. With our strong asset backing we are able to offer our GP
partners, pharmacists and patients modern integrated facilities which are suited
to the evolving NHS and are capable of undertaking many services which have
hitherto been carried out in hospitals.

'The medical division has formed eight joint ventures serving circa 1m patients
and is on track to have over 1.5m patients by the end of this financial year.
Out-patient services have commenced in Liverpool, Bath and Macclesfield and
there are many other services being bid for or planned. The pharmacy division
has 15 pharmacies trading with a further five scheduled to open in the next
three months. Next year we intend to open or invest in another 20 pharmacies
taking the total, by 31 March 2009, to a minimum of 40 pharmacies. The property
division is on track to have £600m invested or committed by 31 March 2008 and
£750m by end 2009.

'We believe that by having a modern portfolio of property assets capable of
housing GPs and other health providers, locating our own pharmacies within these
facilities and by entering into collaborative joint ventures with GPs to provide
out-patient and related services as a 'willing provider'(i) we will build a
strong and effective group capable of becoming one of the leading providers of
NHS services to patients.'


The full text of the Interim Results are available on RNS.


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