Convertible loan notes repayment date extension

RNS Number : 0645R

Deltex Medical Group PLC

27 February 2023

 

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27 February 2023

Deltex Medical Group plc

("Deltex Medical", the "Company" or the "Group")

Convertible loan notes repayment date extension

The Board of Deltex Medical (AIM: DEMG), the global leader in oesophageal doppler monitoring, is pleased to announce that the repayment date of the £1.1 million convertible loan notes in the Company ("Loan Notes") has been extended from 26 February 2024 to 30 June 2026 (the "Transaction").

All other terms of the Loan Notes, which were issued in February 2016, remain unchanged, including that they are unsecured, carry an annual interest rate of 8% and are convertible into new ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company at 4 pence per share at any time until the repayment date at the discretion of the lender.

Related Party Transaction

£500,000 of the Loan Notes are provided by Imperialise Limited, a company controlled by Nigel Keen, Chairman of Deltex Medical, and therefore the Transaction constitutes a related party transaction with Nigel Keen under Rule 13 of the AIM Rules for Companies. The directors independent of the Transaction, being Andy Mears, Natalie Wettler, Julian Cazalet, Mark Wippell, Christopher Jones and Tim Irish, having consulted with the Company's nominated adviser, Allenby Capital, consider that the terms of the Transaction are fair and reasonable insofar as Deltex Medical's shareholders are concerned.

For further information, please contact:

Deltex Medical Group plc	01243 774 837
Nigel Keen, Chairman	[e-mail]
Andy Mears, Chief Executive
Natalie Wettler, Group Finance Director
Nominated Adviser and Broker Allenby Capital Limited	020 3328 5656
Jeremy Porter / Vivek Bhardwaj (Corporate Finance)	[e-mail]
Tony Quirke / Stefano Aquilino (Sales & Corporate Broking)

Notes for Editors

Deltex Medical's technology

Deltex Medical's TrueVue System uses proprietary haemodynamic monitoring technology to assist clinicians to improve outcomes for patients as well as increase throughput and capacity for hospitals.

Deltex Medical has invested over the long term to build a unique body of peer-reviewed, published evidence from a substantial number of trials carried out around the world. These studies demonstrate statistically significant improvements in clinical outcomes providing benefits both to patients and to the hospital systems by increasing patient throughput and expanding hospital capacity.

The Group's flagship, world-leading, ultrasound-based oesophageal Doppler monitoring ("ODM") is supported by 24 randomised control trials conducted on anaesthetised patients. As a result, the primary application for ODM is focussed on guiding therapy for patients undergoing elective surgery.

Deltex Medical's engineers and scientists carried out successful research in conjunction with the UK's National Physical Laboratory ("NPL"), which has enabled the Group's 'gold standard' ODM technology to be extended and developed so that it can be used completely non-invasively. This will significantly expand the application of Deltex Medical's technology to non-sedated patients. This new technological enhancement, which will be released on the new next generation monitor, will substantially increase the addressable market for the Group's haemodynamic monitoring technologies and is complementary to the long-established ODM evidence base.

Deltex Medical's new non-invasive technology has potential applications for use in a number of healthcare settings, including:

§ Accident & Emergency for the rapid triage of patients, including the detection and diagnosis of sepsis, an important capability for patients presenting with COVID-19 symptoms;

§ in general wards to help facilitate a real-time, data-driven treatment regime for patients whose condition might deteriorate rapidly; and

§ in critical care units to allow regular monitoring of patients post-surgery who are no longer sedated or intubated.

One of the key opportunities for the Group is positioning this new, non-invasive technology for use throughout the hospital. Deltex Medical's haemodynamic monitoring technologies provide clinicians with beat-to-beat real-time information on a patient's circulating blood volume and heart function. This information is critical to enable clinicians to optimise both fluid and drug delivery to patients.

Deltex Medical's business model is to drive the recurring revenues associated with the sale of single-use disposable ODM probes which are used in the TrueVue System and to complement these revenues with a new incremental revenue stream to be derived from the Group's new non-invasive technology.

Both the existing single-use ODM probe and the new, non-invasive device will connect to the same, next generation monitor which is due for launch in 2023. Monitors are sold or, due to hospitals' often protracted procurement times for capital items, loaned in order to encourage faster adoption of the Group's technology.

Deltex Medical's customers

The principal users of Deltex Medical's products are currently anaesthetists working in a hospital's operating theatre and intensivists working in ICUs. This customer profile will change as the Group's new non-invasive technology is adopted by the market. In the UK the Group sells directly to the NHS. In the USA the Group sells directly to more than 30 major hospitals that appreciate the value of Deltex Medical's evidence-based approach to haemodynamic management. The Group also sells through distributors in more than 40 countries in the European Union, Asia and the Americas.

Deltex Medical's objective

To see the adoption of Deltex Medical's next generation TrueVue System, comprising both minimally invasive and non-invasive technologies, as the standard of care in haemodynamic monitoring for all patients from new-born to adult, awake or anaesthetised, across all hospital settings globally.

For further information please go to www.deltexmedical.com   

 

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