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Earnings Call: H1 2025

Feb 26, 2025

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Going, I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land from which I'm presenting to you today, which is the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and the lands on which all of you are joining me. I'd like to pay my respects to their elders, past and present, and to extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who are joining us on the call. Joining me today on the call is our Chief Financial Officer, Matt Gepp, who will take you through, in a little more detail, some of the financial results, and our Chair, Rebecca Wilson. Today, as usual, we'll take you through a presentation covering the key financial and commercial highlights of the half, and followed by that, you know, some of our thoughts on the remainder of the year.

We'll then open up the call at the end of the call for Q&A. All attendees have got the opportunity to ask questions at the conclusion of the presentation. If you'd like to ask a question, just can you use the Q&A function at the bottom of your screen? We'll aim, of course, to answer as many questions as we can in the time available, although I know a lot of people have probably got a number of calls they are attending today. Any questions that are similar of nature or the same, we'll try and group those together. If we do run out of time and we're not able to answer one of your questions, please follow up with an investor email to investor@alcidion.com, and we'll try to seek to answer those as soon as possible.

Also, as a reminder, the webcast is being recorded today, and it will be available later today on Alcidion's website. Just move my slides. Getting into the core of the presentation, Alcidion's produced a solid result for the first half, with subsequent events to the half giving us further positive momentum. I'd like to say thank you to those who have joined us on the call today who are longstanding shareholders. We know recent times have been challenging, but we're really pleased to see the sales momentum that we've been working towards come to fruition, and that that's now driving stronger financial performance and greater interest in the company. Before I get into the results today in detail, there are some people on the call who are potentially new to the story.

I'd like to just give a brief introduction to Alcidion and some of the core problems we're trying to solve in healthcare. You will note that we have lodged the presentation today. There's a little bit of information in that presentation that extends beyond the core financial results for the presentation. In terms of what we do, Alcidion's a healthcare data and informatics company. We have a platform known as Miya Precision that consolidates large amounts of data and information across healthcare into a single platform that allows hospitals and healthcare services and adjacent healthcare providers to streamline their workflows and use that information to help improve the delivery of patient care. Our real aim is to support healthcare professionals and to give them the tools they need to make their jobs easier so that that hopefully delivers a more efficient and safer healthcare system for everyone.

We currently operate across three geographies: Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The revenue is split roughly evenly between ANZ and the U.K., although that can fluctuate half on half depending on when contracts are signed and where they land. As I said, Miya Precision is our flagship software platform. It's a cloud-based modular solution that allows you to scale up and down for functionality depending on not only what budget a customer has, but what the problems they're trying to solve at a particular time. It is that modular-based platform architecture that we've taken that we think is a real key differentiator for our product offering. At present, we've got around 16 unique modules. However, as we've recently demonstrated, we've got the capability internally to develop and commercialize new modules quickly as our customers' needs change, all using the same consolidated data platform.

Supporting the product offering is a team of integration and implementation specialists who have extensive experience across the healthcare market. It is working; it is the way they work with our partners that we are able to stand out in respect of the depth of the solutions that we are able to bring into healthcare. Moving on to the actual results from the first half and subsequent events. From both a business and financial perspective, it has been a positive first half for the business, strengthened, of course, by the announcements on North Cumbria and Hywel Dda, which occurred subsequent to the period. I will not go into a huge amount of detail here because I know Matt is going to take you to this in a little bit more, but I do want to highlight a few key points. I think they are important.

We delivered first half revenue of AUD 17.6 million, which, whilst down 7%, is exactly in line with our expectations for the half. That decrease in revenue compared to the prior period was primarily due to lower product implementation revenue. We highlighted that when we talked about our outlook for FY2024. It is really the implementation revenue from that Leidos Australia contract, which, as we near the end of delivery of that program of work, quite naturally is tailing off. As we move into North Cumbria, we will probably start to pick up again. Just to clarify, that only relates to the project-specific work for that ADF program. Obviously, the ongoing annual license fees and subscriptions will continue for years to come. During the first half, we signed new sales TCV of AUD 18.3 million, primarily driven by three new customers.

Subsequent to the period end, we signed two other key contracts, taking the collective year-to-date new sales revenue for the year to AUD 61.3 million, which is a record for the business. That is the year-to-date figure before we finish the year out. These new sales have also contributed, obviously, to the FY25 contracted revenue, which currently stands at AUD 39.5 million for the year. Underlying EBITDA for the first half was positive AUD 500,000 and $500,000, reflecting a material improvement of AUD 3.3 million on the prior calendar period. Just at a summary level, from an operational perspective, we have now signed five new customers since the start of the year, along with renewing several other contracts across both the U.K. and Australia and New Zealand markets.

I'll touch on the detail of the contracts later, but notably to many on the call, I'm sure you're aware of the announcement that we signed the first EPR deal with North Cumbria NHS Trust that also includes our patient administration system, PCS. Great validation of the business and highlights that continued value proposition that Miya Precision brings to the customers. On the outlook and balance for the year, we're confident, as I said, of delivering positive EBITDA and cash flow for the full year. I'm going to hand over to Matt, who's going to take you through the results in a little bit more detail.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Thank you, Kate. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for this results presentation. As Kate said, we've signed five new material contracts in the first eight months of this financial year. We're pleased to update you today with the current TCV sales for the year, which stands at AUD 61.3 million. Back in 2022, we signed the first ADF contract. That project had a three-year implementation period with revenue recognition spanning four financial years. As forecast, we are now in the final year of that implementation. As a result of that project nearing completion in H1, we see an AUD 1.2 million decrease in the implementation revenue in this half, and that sees us delivering revenue in the half of AUD 17.6 million. That's precisely where we forecast the revenue to be for this half when we started the year.

With NALHN and Peninsula signing late in the half, we'll see a full six-month contribution from these contracts in H2, combined with the contribution from Hywel Dda and North Cumbria for at least a full quarter. We've announced today that the sold and renewal revenue for FY2025 currently stands at AUD 39.5 million. This time last year, we announced a program to reduce the annualized cost base in the business by AUD 6.4 million. Primarily, that was to be achieved by a reduction in staff costs. As we end the first half, staff costs are down AUD 3.4 million on the prior year, which gives us an annualized reduction in costs of AUD 6.8 million. With this reduction in costs, the business has delivered positive underlying EBITDA of around AUD 500,000. That's an improvement of AUD 3.3 million on the previous year half.

We've also confirmed today that we are confident of delivering positive full-year EBITDA. On to the revenue dashboard. On the top left, we see the historical half-on-half revenue. We typically have a record of delivering a stronger second-half revenue number, and we expect that trend to continue in the current year, with second-half sold and renewal revenue currently at AUD 21.9 million, following the AUD 17.6 million recorded in H1. On the top right, we have the relative contribution from ANZ and the U.K. This is unchanged from last year at 57% and 43%, respectively. We expect this will flip in favor of the U.K. for the first time, actually, by the time we reach the end of the year. On the bottom left, this is a graphic we introduced for the first time at the end of FY2024.

It demonstrates really well the four streams of revenue in the business, underpinned, of course, by the recurring revenue in dark blue. We're very happy that we delivered a solid recurring revenue in H1 of AUD 13.7 million. On the bottom right, we can see the proportion of revenue that is recurring annually. That's at 78% in H1. This graphic also demonstrates the substantial shift the business has made away from services revenue towards ARR over the last five years. Thank you, Kate. Onto the balance sheet. Look, I don't have a lot to comment on here. I'll touch on cash on the next slide. We end the half with AUD 8.2 million of trade debtors. That's AUD 4.7 million higher than at June, which had a balance of AUD 3.5 million. It's a recurring feature of our business that December debtors are materially higher than in June.

That's one of the factors that sets Alcidion up for a stronger second-half cash receipts and operating cash flow performance. Unearned revenue is largely consistent with June at AUD 13 million. As we've talked about before, this balance fully washes through the books each year. Onto the cash flow. Coming to the end of the financial section of this presentation, I'll point out to start with that we do not capitalize staff costs in our business. 100% of the staff cash costs are presented in the operating cash flow that we see here. This is the same cash flow we saw at the end of January with the Appendix 4C. For the half, receipts are marginally up on the prior year at AUD 15.3 million. The important number here, however, is the AUD 7 million reduction in payments to suppliers and employees that we report in this half.

After reporting negative operating cash flow of AUD 3.9 million in Q1, which is very much a result of large VAT payments that arise out of the prior year Q4 invoicing in the U.K., we followed that up with a modest negative operating cash flow of AUD 259,000 in Q2, leaving us with negative operating cash flow of AUD 4.1 million for the half, which is consistent with our forecasts. With the reduction in spend, that's an improvement of AUD 7.3 million versus the prior year. We're very comfortable with the cash at AUD 7.7 million at the end of December. The business has consistently delivered positive H2 operating cash flow since 2021. As announced today, we are confident at this point of achieving full-year positive operating cash flow. Thanks for joining us, Kate. Back to you.

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Thank you, Matt. It's worth probably just recapping, I think, for those on the call, the notable contract wins and renewals we've had throughout the first half. In the first half, we signed three new deals across the Australian market, which is a market where we're seeing increasing opportunity for flow command centre and mobile access solutions, as this market, along with the rest of the world, really grapples with those challenges of demand versus capacity in the healthcare system. In Victoria, we partnered with Hume Rural Health Alliance and with Peninsula Health, further expanding our presence across the acute care market in this state. That's where we're using the platform, as we are also in Western and Alfred Health, to help manage that flow and capacity challenges. You know, increasing presence across Victoria.

In South Australia, we entered into a contract with North Adelaide Local Health Network, or what we refer to as Nylon, which was particularly exciting for us, as that's our first customer in South Australia, the place where Alcidion was founded and where we have a significant staff presence. It's worth noting that all of these opportunities were won in competitive tender. Often in this call, I do talk about the importance of referenceability in procurement, particularly in healthcare, where they really look to evidence base. In Australia, we've now got a really diverse range, both geographically and by types of modules and mix of markets in this of deployments in this market that really demonstrate the benefit of our solutions. Increasingly, we're able, therefore, to reference benefits as a key differentiator for our products against competitors.

You will have heard us talk before about some of the benefits that have been articulated in quantitative and qualitative measures done by independent studies. We continue to receive inbound interest for our patient flow solutions, given the importance of this for hospital administrators and clinicians at this point in time, and how they can continue to support bed blockage. In fact, I think we'll continue to see increasing interest in this in the coming months and years. Lastly, during the half, this is subsequent to the half period, we signed our first contract in Wales, which was an AUD 5.5 million deal over five years, again following a competitive tender process, looking for solutions to not only address flow and capacity management, but also observations, assessments, and mobile data availability for clinicians. Wales is actually a really interesting market.

Whilst it's not that large in population, it does have several health boards. Many of those health boards recently selected the Better Medications Management partner for their medications management to roll out. Not through us, but it demonstrates that Wales is taking that, at this point in time, that sort of best of breed or modular approach to building out their EPR capabilities. We think our approach is really well suited to their healthcare needs, with that sort of modern modular platform resonating quite well with several customers in that market. I have touched on this slide that depicts the North Cumbria deal before, but I thought I'd just reiterate it and sort of talk to it in the construct of what this contract means for Alcidion and for us in that market.

As many of you are aware, we've now signed the contract, and it marks the first full EPR deployment with the PAS solution, PCS. At the core of that EPR solution is our Miya Precision platform, providing a full suite of applications to meet the requirements of the trust and to enhance the deployment of PCS, which they've had for some eight years or so. The contract is total value of AUD 37.5 million, sorry, over a 10-year period. The initial AUD 8 million-AUD 9 million, which we expect to recognize in this financial year, is primarily related to an upfront license fee. Receiving a portion of the license fee upfront is not an uncommon feature of the U.K. market, where they're funding these big programs of work in a capital way for some portion of the contract. We've provided a range of revenue in terms of recognition.

That AUD 39.5 million is taking the lower end of that range for the North Cumbria recognition. We have done that because there are some payments beyond the license fee that will, license fee, I should say, that will be related to implementation milestones and the achievement of those. We are just taking a risk-based view of how much of that will be recognized in this financial year. Yeah, there may be more than the AUD 8 million. Also note that North Cumbria already used the Better Medications Management solution, for which they have a direct contract relationship. The fees for the Better Meds component are not part of this total TCV, unlike in Dartford and South Tees, where we are, in fact, the prime contractor for Better Meds. Deployment is already kicked off. It started this week.

We're really excited and looking forward to seeing how that rolls out in the coming months. It's been actually a very busy first half for us in terms of deployments. In Q1, we went live with the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which was our first site using our new Emergency Department Module. It was a key milestone for the business, demonstrating our ability to bring whole new modules to market very quickly, getting them out and live with our customers and bringing new functionality that we're really seeing some increasing interest from across not just the U.K., but across our whole customer base. At Bolton, which has been a long-time Patientrack customer, they went live with Flow Access and Command, where they chose to replace the ExtraMed solution, which was the legacy flow solution we acquired a few years back, thus creating another Miya Precision site in the U.K.

Around the same time, we also went live with Medications Management at Dartford, where they're using Miya Noting and the rest of the Miya platform for observations, assessments, and communication as well. We also went live at Hume, which was rolled out very quickly as our fastest ever rollout of Miya Precision over 12 weeks, enabling our customers to demonstrate how quickly they can achieve that value. The Hume rollout is a particularly exciting one as well across a rural region that has got some very large central hospitals in the large towns such as Albury and Wangaratta, but then a number of hospitals spread out across quite a wide geographic area. Our ability to effectively implement these and our third-party solutions has always been a strength. It is a unique part of our skill set in that we have such strong understanding of project implementation and integration.

We are continuing to be able to sort of demonstrate how we can deliver on those promises to our customers. I have got a few slides now. Just to reiterate some of the advantages, sorry, I jumped ahead there of our solution. Not going to go into it a lot of detail. We have presented this information before, but updated it in light of some of the deployments we have now had in respect of how we position ourselves against competitors. We really are very confident that our Miya Precision platform is at the forefront of modern healthcare IT architecture for an enterprise and that we are continuing to really focus on those critical challenges that clinicians and healthcare administrators are facing. As many of you will know, Miya was originally developed by clinicians specifically for clinicians.

Our purpose has really always been to remove unnecessary process and administrative burden so that we can provide people that are in that front line with a way of digesting information in a way that reduces the cognitive burden. I think the benefits that we are seeing are continuing to be amplified in achieving those. This slide, I appreciate, is fairly detailed and not one we're going to necessarily go through in great depth here on the presentation, but just wanted to give you an idea of not only the depth of what Miya Precision is addressing now, but also the ways in which we structure the architecture and take the capability to market.

At the bottom, underpinning everything, you have the core Miya Precision architecture, which is cloud-based, driven by a FHIR event platform, incorporating two-way integration from our modules, not only into our modules, but into those systems that we are importantly getting information from in respect of third parties. Right up the top, you have that Miya Command capability, which is essentially a type of operation centre that allows you to see what's happening not only across a hospital, but a region or an entire integrated care system, if that's how it is deployed. The beauty of that is the opportunities it gives you. Just as a really good example, I recently went up to Hume to see a showcase of the work that has been achieved there.

They told a story about one of the hospitals being well and truly full and that they were going to need to divert ambulances from that hospital. Another large hospital in that region was able to actually look at what the data that was available in Miya and see that a lot of their patients were actually out of catchment area. They were able to have those patients moved back into catchment area and then create opportunities, which meant there was no requirement to divert ambulances. Diverting those ambulances in a country area is not diverting them down the road 10 minutes. It is potentially diverting them to a two-hour journey. Those are the sort of stories that really demonstrate the value that Miya Precision can bring. It is in that context that we see the continuing opportunity in Australia.

Whilst we're getting a really good footprint in Victoria, whilst we've got our first site in South Australia, opportunities absolutely exist to expand that throughout this country. South Australian market, Nylon is the first, hopefully, of the local health networks that will be interested in what we're doing. They're keeping a very close eye on the progress of that project. Queensland, the new Director General, has been given a direct mandate to help alleviate patient flow issues across that market. Australia is a region that we've actually had several long-standing customers in, there remains significant opportunity for expansion of our solutions focused on those verticals, not to mention hospital in the home and virtual care, which continues to be an area where we're seeing people seek solutions such as Miya.

In the NHS and in the U.K. or in England, specifically, you already know about the opportunity for the NHS frontline digitisation programme, which is focused on new electronic patient records for England. We will continue to see procurements come out in that market over the next 12 months. We will expect to continue to be active participants in those procurements. Equally, we're seeing opportunities to further develop more of our modules or deploy, I should say, more of our modules, but also to look at the optimisation of the digital environment in England. In Scotland and Wales, we now will shortly have live sites in both of those markets. We have a number of our observations and assessments across Scotland and currently deploying into Wales. We're looking forward to the opportunity to continue that momentum that has been building.

Looking to the outlook, as we said, we've got a minimum FY2025 contracted revenue standing at AUD 39.5 million, which does include the contributions from Hywel Dda and North Cumbria, with North Cumbria being at the lower end of that expectation. As a result of those wins and where we stand now, we are confident of delivering positive EBITDA and cash flow for the full year. We continue to engage with a variety of new and existing customers across our key markets and potentially newer markets with increasing momentum that's been created off the back of those wins. That underpins our confidence in creating a sustainable, growing, and profitable business into the future. At that point, I'm very happy to take any questions that we may have received online or prior to the webinar.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Thanks, Kate. We have had a few questions come in before and a few questions come in while we've been presenting. There are a couple around South Tees, which I'll combine. There's published information that North Tees and Hartlepool are planning to combine their EPRs with South Tees in November 2027. Alcidion has a 10-year contract with Tees. Are we well placed? Are we well positioned to win these two EPRs?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Yeah, it's interesting. There are a number of these sorts of opportunities coming up in England where trusts are merging within an integrated care system. I think we're in a strong market position in this opportunity. We've got demonstrable and positive position and feedback at South Tees. I understand why they need to go to market. There is a different supplier in North Tees, and therefore, at some point, they will need to understand and give everyone an opportunity. Just reiterating the position we have in that integrated care system. Not only South Tees in the North Cumbria Integrated Care System, so is NCIC, as well as Northumbria that uses our PCS solution. We continue to see that whole integrated care system as an opportunity.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Thanks, Kate. Another customer question. Could you please provide an update on Alcidion's relationship with University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, including whether contract extension options are likely to be exercised?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Look, we continue to work with University Hospital Southampton. They're rolling out the emergency module. They're a sister trust to Hampshire Hospitals, and they were sort of waiting. They've been sort of following on from what they do. They're a little bit different in Hampshire in that they're replacing an existing system. They are taking their time to get all the elements right before they go live.

They're also part of an ICS that's going to market for an EPR later in the year. I expect we won't see them roll out too many more additional modules ahead of that procurement because they're part of Hampshire Isle of Wight ICB, and there's four significant trusts in that ICB who intend, as I said, to go to market for an EPR later this year.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Thanks, Kate. We've now had a flurry of questions online, which I'm going to try to decipher as quickly as possible. The first one is, what benefits have you seen as a result of the Novari and/or Olinqua partnership?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Look, I can't point to any particular opportunities where we have won a deal because of that partnership. What it does open up to our customers and to the opportunities that we go after, a widening of that. Olinqua is really focused on areas and Novari that we don't do. It allows us to present opportunities for our customers to partner with a wider ecosystem. That's really what Alcidion's about. How do we create an ecosystem that supports customers' needs using the Miya platform as the consolidator?

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Okay. What percentage of hospitals in Australia and England don't have a digital patient software?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

All customers would have some form of digital patient record. Many of them don't have the whole end-to-end process fully digitized yet. There are conflicting views on how many actually are still out to market. I think there was some press in the last 24-48 hours saying there were seven that weren't going to meet the requirement to be live by March 2026. There are several in procurement and several who haven't started procurement. All of them would have some form of digital solution that would be doing elements, even if it's just the patient management.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Thank you, Kate. How is the NHS procurement? I think this follows on. How is the NHS procurement landscape evolving? There have previously been a number of delays, but new contracts are coming in now. Is this a sustainable cadence of new contract adds?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Look, the procurement landscape is continuing. We did have a period where there was really nothing much happening, and a lot of them had been slowed down. We know that people are still completing business cases. We know that people are still coming to market. I think I've said before, there's two parts to the process. There's a pre-market engagement and then the tender process, though that is still occurring actively.

There are other opportunities emerging around optimisation of digital health pathways in England. As I said, I think on the quarterly, the 10-year plan that we're expecting to be published very soon is going to give us greater clarity on where NHS England intends spending its budget for digital health in the next 10 years, I guess.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Thanks, Kate. I think I can answer this one if you want. The recurring component for North Cumbria, would this be AUD 37.5 million less the AUD 8-9 million upfront divided by 10?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

No. It would, in fact, be the AUD 37.5 million less that plus some implementation I would have thought, Matt.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Yeah, correct. Correct. Of course, there'll be CPI applied in later years as well.

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

I mean, what is the recurring? I think we've got a rough idea. It's around AUD 3 million, isn't it?

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Yeah, it's around 3 million. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. All right. Sorry. How many other silver? So this is off the back of the NCIC agreement being signed. How many other Silverlink clients are there in the U.K. who you think could be upgraded?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Look, I mean, I don't want to predict that because they've got to go to market and go through a competitive tender process. There are some that might not be necessarily going via the frontline digitisation programme. Northumbria is a very good example of that. We have other customers who might have actually gone through the EPR programme but still planning to maintain PCS or the Silverlink for the foreseeable future. There are three or four customers, PCS customers, that will, over time, I think, move from our PAS to another EPR provider, but still several that are in play. Okay.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Thank you, Kate. This one is regarding the current pipeline. How do you see that compared to where it was a year ago?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Look, the pipeline is healthy and remains healthy. My view on the pipeline is that opportunities come in and opportunities go out. When you sign something the size of North Cumbria, you remove that from the pipeline, obviously, with adding on new EPRs, new opportunities in Australia as they come in. Over time, the pipeline does stay fairly similar, although, to be honest, I think if I was to look at it now, right today, it's probably about 20% larger in value. It's really important to understand that one opportunity in and out of the pipeline are not the same.

If you think about a deal, it could be 5 million versus a deal that could be 37. It's the measurement not only of the value of the pipeline, but the numbers of opportunities that are in the pipeline. As I've said, we are increasingly seeing interest in what we're doing as we take more customers live and sign more opportunities.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Thanks, Kate. Can you give an estimate for what portion of future revenues will be implementation revenue?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

No. No, not really. I mean, I would expect, though, that where we are now is probably around about where it will continue unless we got to a point that we weren't signing new customers that were implementing and we were just in a steady-state situation, which is a long way from where we are at the moment. I expect we will continue to sign new customers, and they will continue to require us to implement their solutions.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Okay. We've got a build-up of questions around one topic, which I'll leave to the next question. I'll ask this question first. It's a bit off-topic. Do you encourage staff to become shareholders in our business?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Yeah. I mean, of course. I mean, I don't know what you mean by encourage, but of course, we're very supportive of customers, of staff who choose to become shareholders. In fact, we have a number of staff who are shareholders.

Rebecca Wilson
Non-Executive Chair, Alcidion

I think, Kate, also, we have a very good long-term incentive program in place that obviously is incentivized through shares too. Yeah.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Okay. More questions keep coming in. I'll get this one out. How does the modular platform architecture work in parallel with another module provider, such as another better module for medications from another provider? What's the likelihood of another competing entity winning over Alcidion for flow as well?

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Obviously, the platform is built to connect other modules, which we can demonstrate across all of our customer base, and then, obviously, very tightly with the work we do with Better Medications Management. At this point in time, I believe I can confidently say that we are one of the preeminent flow solutions in the market based on the fact that we have won all competitive tenders in this market for flow of recent times. We remain ever vigilant about what is going on with competitors in our market, and we feed that intelligence into what we're doing in respect of future product and sales opportunities.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Okay. We're coming, I think, to the end of the questions. I'll ask this one, which we've got three different people asking a very similar question. How aggressively are you looking at expansion beyond the U.K.? Are there opportunities in sales for Scotland and Ireland? What about expanding further, i.e., Canada? From another question, the U.S.

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

We have always been in the U.K. market as a whole. Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland have always been active for us. Obviously, the big opportunity at the time was in England. We're seeing increased activity out of Wales. As I said, we've always had sort of a steady stream of sales in Scotland, particularly with observations and so forth. That market remains obviously very important to us. We have, quite rightly, I think, over the last 12 months, been very focused on delivering on our proposition in our existing markets.

We have always said that we keep open to new geographical expansion. In the next few months, we will really be turning our mind towards where those markets may be. Canada remains a definite opportunity. We were recently, as many of our shareholders will know because it was on our LinkedIn, we recently went to a dedicated patient flow conference in the U.S. to really start to understand what was going on in that market. I can confidently say the problems we're seeing in healthcare in our existing markets exist pretty well universally across healthcare systems. Our job now is to understand which of those markets present the best opportunity for us and how we might go about looking at those markets.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Thank you, Kate. There's a couple of other questions around implementation revenue, which I think we've touched on in the slide. There are no other questions that have come in now.

Kate Quirke
Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion

Thank you. Thanks, everyone. Really, thank you. Just want to thank you once again for your interest and ongoing support of Alcidion. We're very pleased with how the company is progressing in respect of executing on our strategy. We look forward to keeping you updated. I thank you as shareholders. I thank the board and the senior leadership team of Alcidion who have worked very hard to deliver this result and continue to remain focused on increasing the value for both our shareholders and our customers.

Matt Gepp
CFO, Alcidion

Okay.

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