ASSURA PLC (AGR) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the ASSURA PLC Interim Results Investor Presentation. Screen. Just please simply type in your question at any time and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during today's meeting. However, the company review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. We'll make these available to you via the investment company dashboard, and we'll notify you when they're ready for your review. I'd also like to remind you that this presentation is being recorded. Before we begin, we would like to submit the following poll. And if you would give that to your kind attention, we would be very grateful. And I'd now like to hand over to Jane Cotham, CFO, and Jonathan Murphy, CEO from ASSURA. Good afternoon to you both. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us for this afternoon's presentation. So so my name is Jonathan Murphy. I'm the CEO from ASSURA. So I'll begin by giving you a brief overview of our performance in the first half. I'll then pass over to Jane, and she'll take you through some of the key financials as well as giving you a brief strategy update. And then I'll come back and give you a little bit more context to what we're seeing in the market at the moment, market trends and developments, and also a little bit more about our our outlook, for the year ahead. So turning first to the highlights from the first six months of the year. We've had a very busy period. I'm sure you've all seen lots of press coverage about the impact of COVID and the the the seismic changes that there have been in in the health market as a result, the backlog in services, the need for more capacity in our hospitals. This has all been, accelerating trends that ...