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Our commitment to sustainability 

Creating new possibilities in a world of limited resources

Our Sustainability Report for fiscal year 2024
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We pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

The world’s resources are limited; our collective challenges are urgent. At Siemens Healthineers, we aim to advance a world where breakthroughs in healthcare create new possibilities with minimal impact on our planet. As a leading medtech company, we are positioned uniquely to solve healthcare challenges through our technologies and innovative solutions. 

Our sustainability strategy is built on three pillars. We commit to expanding patient impact by improving healthcare access, limiting our environmental impact, and engaging our diverse Healthineers to achieve this impact globally. We amplify the impact of these pillars through two enablers: Volunteering and Employee-led initiatives, and Global and Regional Partnerships.

Our commitments

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Improving healthcare access for all

We are committed to tackling the greatest challenges in healthcare today: fighting the most threatening diseases, accelerating diagnoses and effective outcomes, increasing access to affordable healthcare, and addressing capacity and capability gaps in the healthcare workforce. Our focus for Healthcare Access is to pioneer breakthroughs that make healthcare accessible and affordable for patients everywhere. We also contribute to addressing the workforce skills gap by providing education and training to healthcare professionals, empowering them to deliver high-quality care even in remote settings.
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Preserving our planet’s resources

We see environmental sustainability in healthcare as a major imperative today because human health is inextricably linked to the health of the planet. We take action toward the United Nations’ call to limit global warming to 1.5°C and work together with our suppliers and customers to reduce our collective emissions along the value chain. By driving decarbonization, reducing consumption of material resources, and promoting circularity in our products and processes, we pave the way to net zero by 2050.
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Engaging our diverse Healthineers

Our 73,000+ diverse and engaged employees are united by our purpose and work to bring sustainable transformations to the healthcare industry. Guided by our values, they bring our purpose to life. We are committed to providing opportunities for developing our employees and cultivating an inclusive workplace that attracts and engages the best talent.

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We are making strong progress towards our 2030 ambition for sustainability – embedding our commitments in key decisions across the company, and engaging our people to create impact for patients, communities and the planet.

Shikha Pillai, Head of the Sustainability Office, Siemens Healthineers

Our impact today

Sustainability is about our impact today and tomorrow – towards a better future for people and planet. We embrace the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and drive our contributions to goals that align with our core business priorities. This way, we drive sustainability and business outcomes together. Discover how we do this through the examples below.

Driving breakthroughs and empowering workforce

We are expanding patient impact with our technologies and solutions, aiming to democratize healthcare for patients everywhere. Healthcare access also requires us to help ease the burden on healthcare professionals and support workforce skilling. Our education and training services promote learning and capacity building.

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Siemens Healthineers is partnering with Pacific Diagnostics and the Tanzanian Ministry of Health in order to close the workforce gap.
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Every action to preserve resources counts

We commit to actively driving decarbonization and preserving resources across the value chain. We also promote reducing, reusing, and recycling primary materials, minimizing waste and rethinking our processes along the value chain together with our customers and suppliers.

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Text on image: Designing products with circularity in mind means extending their life cycle as far as possible. With Fit Upgrades, for example, we can extend the life span of our CT and MRI systems - keeping them state of the art and reducing total cost of ownership.
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Text on image: Reducing plastic is a key focus topic for us. By switching from plastic to cardboard inlays for diagnostic tests, we can save 39 tons of polystyrene plastic per year.
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Every Healthineer matters

Our power as a company is in our workforce: Our 73,000+ diverse and engaged Healthineers are united to solve healthcare challenges, today and in the future. In bringing together a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, we enrich our collective knowledge, become more innovative, and grow more economically resilient.

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Text on image:We are building an inclusive workplace that enables every employee to thrive. With Self-Identification we gain insights on the needs of our people that help us refine policies, enhance accessibility, and create tailored recognition programs.
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Our targets for tomorrow

3.3 billion touchpoints 

3.3 billion patient touchpoints worldwide by 2030 with 1.25 billion in low- and middle- income countries

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6 million hours

6 million hours of training provided by 2030



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    Partnering to accelerate impact across our sustainability pillars

    No organization can solve healthcare and ecological challenges alone and this is why we align our vision and work together with global and regional partners who amplify our sustainability impact. Partners bring mutually complementary capabilities and work with us to address resource and infrastructural needs as we strengthen healthcare systems. 

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    Addressing challenges in healthcare access often requires partners for funding and provision of care. For instance, we partnered with City Cancer Challenge to support city-led cancer solutions to improve and sustain access to equitable, quality cancer care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We also support UNICEF1, the United Nations Children’s Fund to improve access to diagnostics to strengthen health systems in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.

    Unlocking the full potential of our employees to amplify our impact

    Our Healthineers Volunteering Program enables our 73,000+ Healthineers to contribute across our sustainability commitments—in improving healthcare access for all, preserving resources for the planet, and building diverse and inclusive communities. We also encourage employees to form communities within the organization and lead initiatives that have transformative potential and accelerate outcomes connected to our sustainability goals. These Employee Networks and Resource Groups (ERGs) create and hold important spaces where our people find belonging, build awareness, connect with development opportunities, and contribute to shared goals.

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    Winner of the German Sustainability Award 2024

    Our sustainability efforts are recognized externally as well – we won the German Sustainability Award in fiscal year 2024, and were included in the Top 100 Sustainability Leaders in the “Medical Technology” category in Germany for this prestigious award.
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    Report

    In our fourth Sustainability Report, we cover the good progress we have made in fiscal year 2024 in expanding patient impact through healthcare access, while limiting our environmental impact, and engaging our employees worldwide in driving outcomes towards our sustainability commitments. Read our report to also know about our lighthouse stories and the impact we create across our regions.

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    Contact

    For questions around our Sustainability strategy, please send an e-mail to our Sustainability team

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