British health care reform: New consultation process begins 6 September 2007

The British Department of Health has announced that a new consultation process
will be carried through in the period 6 September - 29 November 2007 on revised
proposals relating to the arrangements for the provision of stoma and
incontinence appliances and related services to Primary Care. 

The consultation document will be published on 6 September 2007 and will be
available on the Department of Health's website during the course of that day
on www.dh.gov.uk\liveconsultations. 

Due to the timing of the consultation process, Coloplast does not anticipate
any changes to the current arrangement before 2008, which is in line with the
company's previous up-dates regarding the British health care reform. 

Coloplast expects to issue an announcement with a summary of the consultation
docu-ment shortly after this has been published. 


Lene Skole
Executive Vice President, CFO







Further information

Investors and analysts 

Peter Høgsted
Head of Investor Relations
Tel. -+45 3085 1301
E-mail: dkptrh@coloplast.com

Press and the media

Jens Tovborg Jensen
Head of Media Relations
Tel. +45 3085 1922
E-mail: dkjto@coloplast.com


This announcement is available in a Danish- and an English-language version. In
the event of any discrepancies, the Danish version shall prevail.