Fisher & Paykel Healthcare provides financial sponsorship of the Auckland-based Middlemore Foundation, Auckland City Hospital, and the Intensive Care Foundation in Australia. Each year, we employ a large number of university students at our New Zealand manufacturing and R&D site.
We run a comprehensive programme of educational events, where we visit local schools and universities to discuss career pathways in STEM*. We also sponsor a range of events and organisations in the science and engineering fields. These have included ‘She Sharp’, which encourages women to take up careers in ICT and other tech-related fields, ‘Future in Tech’, where we provide ambassadors to help run visits to local schools to talk about STEM careers.
We are listed on the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges. We value the support and confidence of our shareholders and our Board seeks to achieve the highest standards of corporate governance and investor relations best practice. We return a large proportion of our profit to shareholders as dividends.
The company has also established a dedicated corporate social responsibility (CSR) group, which promotes and assists in the coordination of CSR initiatives across the company.
Clinical studies are an important element in building confidence in the efficacy of our products, particularly in new clinical settings. We support clinical research that validates improvements in patient outcomes that our products can deliver, and we work closely with clinicians and healthcare organisations to support these studies and identify ways in which our products can help them provide better healthcare solutions.
*STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics