“As a leading health technology company, our purpose is to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation, positively impacting 2 billion lives per year by 2025.
We aim to grow Philips responsibly and sustainably, and therefore continuously set ourselves challenging environmental and social targets, and live up to the highest standards of governance.
Acting responsibly towards the planet and society is part of our DNA. I am convinced that this is the best way for us to create superior, long-term value for Philips’ multiple stakeholders."
Frans van Houten,
CEO Philips
What does it take to realise sustainable healthcare? Did you know that the world's healthcare systems account for 4% of global CO2 emissions*? At Philips we are joining forces with our customers and suppliers, to reduce our environmental footprint and create a sustainable and more resilient healthcare industry. Watch this video and find out how we drive sustainable healthcare.
*www.carbonbrief.org/healthcare-in-worlds-largest-economies-accounts-for-4-of-global-emissions
Our ambitious circular economy objectives for 2025:
** including non-manufacturing sites, such as large offices, warehouses and R&D facilities
In a circular economy, products, parts and materials are kept at their highest utility and value at all times, circulating between customers. These productive loops maintain value while minimising waste and the extraction of finite resource reserves.
For our business, we see the move from the linear model of ‘Take › make › dispose’ to a circular model of ‘Make › use › return’ in five returning loops: dematerialise/optimise, service, refurbish, parts recovery, recycle.
As a purpose-driven company, we take a fully integrated approach to doing business responsibility and sustainably. Building on our proven track record in sustainability over the years, we have adopted a comprehensive set of key commitments across all the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) dimensions that guide the execution of our company strategy.
Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 3, 12 and 13:
The healthcare industry is under tremendous pressure to hold costs down while delivering exceptional patient care. As a result, there is a clear trend toward keeping and maintaining existing medical equipment.
Discover our portfolio of upgrades and trade-ins that can extend the life of your equipment. Whether it’s image guided therapy, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, radiography, ultrasound, or advanced visualisation through IntelliSpace Portal, SmartPath can help keep your imaging systems up-to-date.
SmartPath allows you to upgrade to the latest Philips technology in a practical, cost-effective way and maintain your long-term success. It’s comparable to buying new.
Philips Remote Services provide you with the remote technical, clinical and educational services you need to maintain and improve peak operating performance for your equipment, support and train your staff, and deliver a great patient experience.
With our proactive remote monitoring services, we can preempt issues to prevent them from occurring, speed resolution when needed, increase system availability, and enhance performance for your critical healthcare assets.
The Philips Maintenance Services provides reactive and proactive support, ensuring that remote service engineers can perform essential maintenance remotely. This makes it possible to prevent issues before they occur. We resolve 50.5% of customers’ cases remotely in the UK, supporting an overall first-time right ratio of 88.5%.* This also helps us to work towards our aim of reducing emissions as part of the UN. SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
*Numbers based on results achieved in Q1 2021.
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