Georgia Healthcare Group PLC Annual Report 2018 Financial Statements Independent Auditor’s Report to the Members of Georgia Healthcare Group plc A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report. Other matters we are required to address • We were appointed by the company and signed the engagement letter on 25 July 2018 to audit the financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2018 and subsequent financial periods. • Following the recommendation of the Audit committee, a resolution proposing to reappoint EY will be proposed at the 2019 AGM. • The period of total uninterrupted engagement including previous renewals and reappointments is 4 years, covering the years ending 31 December 2015 to 31 December 2018. • The non-audit services prohibited by the FRC’s Ethical Standard were not provided to the group or the parent company and we remain independent of the group and the parent company in conducting the audit. • The audit opinion is consistent with the additional report to the audit committee. Use of our report This report is made solely to the company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed. Richard Addison (Senior statutory auditor) for and on behalf of Ernst & Young LLP, Statutory Auditor London 2 April 2019 Notes: The maintenance and integrity of the Georgia Healthcare Group plc web site is the responsibility of the directors; the work carried out by the auditors does not involve consideration of these matters and, accordingly, the auditors accept no responsibility for any changes that may have occurred to the financial statements since they were initially presented on the web site. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions. 120