Settlement agreement with NHS Digital

RNS Number : 7417J

EMIS Group PLC

07 December 2018

 

7 December 2018

EMIS Group plc

("EMIS Group" or "the Group")

Settlement agreement with NHS Digital

EMIS Group, the UK leader in connected healthcare software and services, confirms that it has reached a settlement agreement with NHS Digital with regards to the service level reporting issues announced in January 2018, within the £11.2m provision previously made and announced.

For further information, contact:

EMIS Group plc                                                                               Tel: [phone]

Andy Thorburn, CEO

Peter Southby, CFO

www.emisgroupplc.com

Numis Securities Limited (Nominated Adviser & Broker)          Tel: [phone]

Oliver Hardy/Simon Willis/James Black

MHP Communications                                                                    Tel: [phone]

Reg Hoare/Giles Robinson/Patrick Hanrahan/Florence Mayo

Notes to Editors

EMIS Group is the UK leader in connected healthcare software and services. Its solutions are widely used across every major UK healthcare setting from primary, community & acute care, to high street pharmacies and specialist care services. EMIS Group helps healthcare professionals in over 10,000 organisations share vital information, facilitating better, more efficient healthcare and supporting longer and healthier lives.

EMIS Group serves the following healthcare markets under the EMIS Health brand:

•      Primary, Community & Acute Care, as the UK leader in clinical management systems for healthcare providers and commissioners. EMIS Health products, including the flagship EMIS Web, hold over 40 million patient records and are used by more than 100,000 professionals in nearly 6,000 healthcare organisations.

•      Community Pharmacy, with the UK's single most used integrated community pharmacy and retail system.

•      Specialist Care, as England's leading provider of diabetic eye screening software and other ophthalmology-related solutions.

These markets are also supported by other EMIS Group businesses:

•      under the Patient brand, the UK's leading independent provider of patient-centric medical and well-being information and related transactional services.

•      under the Egton brand, providing specialist ICT infrastructure, hardware and engineering services, and non-clinical software into health and social care.

•      under the EMIS Care brand, providing healthcare screening programmes such as diabetic eye screening.

 

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