RNS Number:1290K
Reed Health Group PLC
16 April 2003

Reed Health Group plc (the "Company")



The Company has been informed on 16 April 2003 that Schroder Investment
Management Limited (SIML) have an interest in 7,236,020 Ordinary Shares of 2p
each ("Ordinary Shares") in the Company, which are held in portfolios managed on
a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.



Included in the above figure are:

         i.      5,629,354 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed
by an affiliated company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and registered in
the name of Chase Nominees Limited;



       ii.      350,000 shares registered or to be registered in the name of
SIML wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited
(Schroder Nominees);



      iii.      933,333 shares are registered or to be registered in the name of
Imperial Pension Nominees Limited; and



     iv.      323,333 shares are registered or to be registered in the name of
Chase Nominees Limited.



An affiliated company, Schroder Investment Management North America Inc (SIMNA
Inc), is managing a portfolio holding a further 373,333 Ordinary Shares. These
shares are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited.



As a consequence SIML, its subsidiaries and affiliated companies have an
interest in an overall aggregate of 7,609,353 Ordinary Shares representing
approximately 20.34% of the total number Ordinary Shares currently in issue.



This notification is made:

(a)     in respect of SIML's interest as investment managers,

(b)     on behalf of SIMNA Inc and SUTL in relation to the interests they are
treated as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the "Act"), and

(c)     on behalf of Schroders plc, which is treated as having an interest in
all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its ownership of SIMNA Inc,
SUTL and SIML.


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