Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8923Z

Medica Group PLC

22 May 2019

 

22 May 2019

Medica Group Plc

Result of Annual General Meeting

Medica Group Plc (LSE: MGP, "Medica" or the "Company") announces that, at its Annual General Meeting held at the offices of Eversheds Sutherlands (International) LLP at One Wood Street, London at 10.00 a.m. today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.

Resolutions		For (including discretionary votes)	% of votes	Against	% of votes cast	Votes cast as a % of relevant shares in issue
Ordinary business
1	To receive and adopt the annual report and accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries for the year ended 31 December 2018	91,901.737	100	0	0	82.71
2	To re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors to the Company	91,655,088	99.73	248,149	0.27	82.71
3	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors of the Company	91,903,237	100	0	0	82.71
4	To re-elect John Graham as Director	91,898,407	100	0	0	82.71
5	To re-elect Stephen Davies as Director	91,899,907	100	0	0	82.71
6	To re-elect Anthony Lee as Director	91,898,407	100	0	0	82.71
7	To re-elect Roy Davis as Director	91,898,407	100	0	0	82.71
8	To re-elect Stephen Whittern as Director	91,898,407	100	0	0	82.71
9	To re-elect Michael Bewick as Director	87,639,221	95.37	4,259,185	4.63	82.71
10	To elect Joanne Easton as Director	91,901,907	100	0	0	82.71
11	To declare a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2018 of 1.5p per ordinary share	91,903,237	100	0	0	82.71
12	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the part containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy) for the year ended 31 December 2018.	86,955,796	94.62	4,944,110	5.38	82.71
Special business
13	General authority to allot shares pursuant to Section 551 Companies Act 2006	91,892,157	99.99	7,750	0.01	82.71
14*	General authority to allot equity securities pursuant to Section 570 Companies Act 2006	80,867,119	88.02	11,010,788	11.98	82.69
15*	General authority to allot equity securities pursuant to Section 570 Companies Act 2006	80,617,970	87.72	11,281,937	12.28	82.71
16*	Authority for on-market purchases of up to 10% of issued share capital	91,639,008	99.72	260,899	0.28	82.71
17*	Authority to call general meetings at 14 clear days' notice	91,847,487	99.94	54,420	0.06	82.71

* Passed as a special resolution of the Company; all other resolutions were passed as ordinary resolutions of the Company.

N.B. Percentage of Votes cast excludes withheld votes. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.

The Board is pleased to have received shareholder support for all the resolutions proposed at the AGM.

The number of Ordinary Shares in issue on 22 May 2018 at 10.00 a.m. was 111,111,114. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of AGM on the Company's website (www.medicagroup.co.uk).

A copy of this announcement will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Enquiries:

Medica Group:	[phone]
John Graham, Chief Executive Officer
Tony Lee, Chief Financial Officer
Investec Bank plc	[phone]
Sara Hale
Daniel Adams
FTI Consulting	[phone]
Brett Pollard
Ben Atwell
Victoria Foster Mitchell
Robert Winder

About Medica

About MEDICA

MEDICA is the UK market leader in the provision of teleradiology services, providing outsourced interpretation and reporting on MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computerised tomography) and plain film (x-ray) images. The Company currently offers three primary services to hospital radiology departments: NightHawk, an out-of-hours service, routine cross-sectional reporting on MRI and CT scans, and routine plain film reporting on x-ray images.

MEDICA has developed a bespoke secure IT platform that provides market-leading linkage between a hospital's Radiology Information System (RIS) and Consultant Radiologists who contract with MEDICA. Direct RIS access ensures that the full wider patient information is available and reviewed with every report.

The Company contracts with the largest pool of consultant radiologists outside of the NHS and has been trusted to provide more than 1.3 million examinations annually across its customer base of more than 100 NHS Trusts and various private hospital groups and diagnostic imaging companies. For more information please visit www.medicagroup.co.uk 

About Teleradiology

Teleradiology is the electronic transmission of radiological patient images, including plain film (x-rays), CT scans and MRI scans, from one location to another for the purposes of diagnostic interpretation and reporting.

 

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