for the Period Ended 31 December 2024
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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 December 2024
Principal activities of the company
Additional information
Registered No. 01691369 The Directors present their report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024. Results and dividends The Company’s loss for the financial year was £1,689,000 (2023: loss of £2,289,000). The Directors are not able to recommend the payment of a dividend in light of the Company’s accumulated losses. Future developments The Company will continue to manufacture and market haemodynamic monitoring technologies. Financial risk management The Board reviews and agrees policies for managing liquidity, currency, credit, interest rate and capital risks. The policies have remained unchanged throughout the year and are summarised below: Liquidity risk The Company’s cash position is principally managed to ensure that sufficient funds are available to meet liquidity requirements. In addition, the Company has in place and makes use of an invoice discounting facility with its bankers to supplement working capital needs. The Company also has the ongoing support of the Parent Company which provides funding as required. Currency risks The Company is exposed to currency fluctuations. Its principal cost base is in pounds sterling. However, it receives a significant proportion of its revenue in US dollars and Euros. As a result, movements in the exchange rates between sterling and other currencies have a direct impact on Company revenue, profits and cash, and as such represents a form of risk. The Directors will revisit the appropriateness of this policy should the Company’s operations change in size or nature. Credit risk The Company is exposed to credit related losses in the event of non-performance by counterparties in connection with financial instruments. The Company uses international distributors in a number of overseas territories. In order to assist the distributors in developing their markets, distributors may be given extended trade terms. Extended trade terms, by their nature, can increase the credit risk to the Company. Such risks are carefully managed through direct relationships with the distributors and knowledge of their markets. The Company takes actions to mitigate this exposure by ensuring adequate background on credit risk is known about counterparties, prior to contracting with them, through selection of counterparties with suitable credit ratings and monitoring its exposure to credit risk on an ongoing basis. Extended terms are evaluated to ensure that it is appropriate to recognise revenue given the requirement that collection is reasonably assured, particularly when sales have been made on bill and hold arrangements. The maximum credit risk exposure at the balance sheet date is represented by the carrying value of financial assets and there are no specific concentrations of credit risk. Interest rate risk The Company has both interest-bearing assets and interest-bearing liabilities. The Company’s policy is to seek the highest possible return on interest-bearing assets without bearing significant credit risk, and to minimise the rate payable on interest-bearing liabilities. The Company places its cash balances on deposit at floating rates of interest. Surplus cash balances are placed on short-term deposit (less than three months). No interest rate swaps are used. Interest rate risk comprises both the interest rate price risk that results from borrowing at fixed rates of interest and also the interest cash flow risk that results from borrowing at variable rates. Currently, excluding intercompany borrowing, the majority of the Company’s external borrowings attract floating rates of interest and therefore the Company’s principal interest rate risk is a cash flow risk. Capital risk The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to safeguard the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, in order to provide future returns and benefits to other stakeholders and to maintain optimal capital structure. Research and development The Company is currently carrying out a substantial and complex product development programme. Such R&D programmes are challenging and are not without risk. Further, as the regulatory environment for medical devices becomes more onerous around the world, the successful completion of development programmes becomes more difficult. Although the Company seeks to mitigate these R&D-associated risks based in large part by drawing upon its years of experience of carrying out product development in and around oesophageal Doppler monitoring as well as the judicious use of consultants, it is not possible to mitigate all the risks associated with carrying out research and development. Moreover, the costs of product development in the medical device sector continue to rise due to ever more onerous regulatory regimes; and the Company does not have unlimited, or substantial, financial resources which it can apply to its R&D activities. Subsequent events Since the balance sheet date, the former Chief Executive, Andy Mears, stepped down from the Board on 12 February 2025 and Natalie Wettler was promoted to the role of Chief Executive.
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 January 2024
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31 December 2024
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
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Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 31 December 2024
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