With a product mix that includes high energy consumption imaging, capital equipment and personal health care, Philips has a unique spectrum of challenges in driving low carbon health care. Nevertheless, it has set the bar high in environmental sustainability goals, and is pressing suppliers to follow its lead.

Quality issues relating to a historical acquisition have held back Philips Healthcare’s financial performance in the post-COVID phase, while market competitors have been able to chart a less bumpy path through the tail end of the pandemic. All are facing supply chain and inflationary pressures.

Inaugural artificial intelligence recommendations from NICE on radiotherapy contouring should allow clinicians to spend more time with patients and on complex cases where AI is not an option. But large language models are not appropriate in all cases, cautions Adrian Sutherland, principal healthcare architect at Endava consultancy.