ASSURA PLC (AGR) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the ASSURA PLC interim results investor presentation. Throughout this quarter presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, they can be submitted at any time using the q and a tab that's situated at the right hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to CEO, Jonathan Murphy. Good afternoon to you, sir. Good afternoon, and thank you everybody for joining us for our for our half year presentation. So in terms of the running order today, you're going to start with me, Jonathan Murphy, CEO. I will give you an overview, of the business and the key progress before I'll pass over to Jane Cottom, our CFO, to take you through the the the key key numbers for the first half. And then I'll return for a final overview in terms of key opportunities in our market and our outlook for the business before we move to q and a. So in terms of the key highlights from the first the first six halves first the first six months of the year, we've had a significant period of strategic change during the year with two significant transactions completed. The first one was the £500,000,000 acquisition of private hostels that we acquired from Northwest in August. This represented a significant expansion of our exposure to the private hostel market, which we see as a really attractive market with long term growth potential that is very well suited to assure his expertise in health care and also our w...