Mehiläinen’s sustainability programme for 2025–2030 has been published

Mehiläinen’s sustainability activities are based on responsibility and caring for people and society. The company’s sustainability programme has now been updated, and targets have been set until 2030.

At Mehiläinen, we have been on a lifelong mission for 115 years. We see each human life as valuable and unique. At the same time, we play our part in ensuring a living planet and a sustainable society. This work is partly guided by the sustainability programme, which has now been updated for 2025–2030.

Areas of Mehiläinen’s updated sustainability programme:

• High-quality care and treatment
• Climate-resilient social care and healthcare
• Healthy, diverse community
• Sustainable and data-secure business

– Here at Mehiläinen, we’re committed to sustainability. Sustainability is an integral part of our basic mission to build better health and wellbeing in society, and sustainability activities are firmly based on our shared values. Expectations of sustainability are growing all the time, and with our new programme, we can meet them even better than before, says Petri Leiponen, Medical Director at Mehiläinen.

The sustainability programme sets direction and goals for sustainability activities

The sustainability programme’s areas are monitored with several indicators, the development of which is reported as part of the sustainability report. The programme is based on the double materiality assessment in accordance with new legislation, in which we have determined the most material impacts, risks and opportunities related to sustainability.

The goals set for the areas of the updated sustainability programme are:

High-quality care and treatment
To us, every life is valuable and deserves the best possible treatment and care. We operate in a customer-driven and reliable manner.

• Our treatment and care is effective, high-quality and individualised.
• We ensure customer and patient safety.
• We invest in high customer satisfaction.
• We invest in the availability of our services.
• We respect and protect our customers’ human rights.​

Climate-resilient social care and healthcare
We take responsibility in mitigating the climate crisis and systematically reduce Mehiläinen’s environmental and climate impacts.

• We reduce direct emissions and those from our supply chain in line with our Science Based Targets by 2030.
• We develop the climate resilience of our operations and communicate about the health impacts of climate change.
• We prevent waste generation and promote full lifecycle use of products.
• We map our ecological impacts.

Healthy, diverse community
We are on a lifelong mission. We are building the best place for professionals by investing in leadership, meaningfulness, and the work environment.

• We support wellbeing, resilience, and health, while ensuring a safe working environment.
• We treat everyone equally and fairly, and we are building a more diverse workplace.
• We consistently promote the protection of human rights.
• We foster long careers by supporting growth and development.
• We lead in accordance with Mehiläinen’s values.

Sustainable and data-secure business
We know our responsibility as part of society. We conduct business fairly, transparently, and sustainably.

• We ensure secure customer interaction, both now and in the future.
• We actively develop our data security and safeguard our customers’ privacy.
• Our financial reporting, including our tax policy, is transparent and open.
• We actively promote responsible procurement practices.

ESGQ

The areas of Mehiläinen’s sustainability programme refer to environmental sustainability (E=Environment), social sustainability (S=Social) and good governance (G=Governance). The fourth area that makes sustainability activities characteristic of Mehiläinen, Q=Quality, refers to the quality of treatment and care.