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27 November 2025

Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust plc (the "Company")

Results of General Meeting

Subsequent to the Company's circular published on 22 October 2025 (the "Circular"), in which proposals were put forward to:

·     make a Tender Offer of up to 100 per cent. of the Ordinary Shares of the Company (excluding Shares held in Treasury);

·     amend the Existing Articles to extend the Company's life indefinitely and provide for subsequent tenders at five-yearly intervals; and

·     authorise the Company to reissue Ordinary Shares held in Treasury at a price below the NAV per Share but above the Tender Price,

the Company held the General Meeting today at which all three resolutions were passed on a poll.

The number of Ordinary Shares in issue at the date of the General Meeting was 124,149,256 (of which 2,879,256 are held in Treasury) and the number of total voting rights (TVR) was 121,270,000 of which a total of 55.9% were voted in the poll.

The results of the General Meeting were as follows:

It should be noted that votes withheld do not constitute votes in law.

Accordingly, the expected timetable for completion of the Tender Offer is set out below.

EXPECTED TIMETABLE OF EVENTS

Each of the times and dates in the expected timetable above may be extended or brought forward without further notice. If any of the above times and/or dates change, the revised time(s) and/or date(s) will be notified to Shareholders by a Regulatory Information Service announcement. All references are to London time (GMT) unless otherwise stated.

A copy of the resolutions, having been passed as special resolutions, will be submitted to Companies House, as well as the FCA's National Storage Mechanism, and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

The full text of the Proposals and of the resolutions proposed to Shareholders was set out in the Circular to Shareholders dated and published on 22 October 2025, and is available on the Company's website at: https://www.polarcapitalglobalhealthcaretrust.co.uk/.

Capitalised terms shall have the meaning attributed to them in the Circular unless otherwise defined in this announcement.