PATRON FOCUS
Viatris takes a different approach to healthcare Formed in 2020 through the combination of Mylan and Upjohn, VIATRIS is a new kind of healthcare company, committed to empowering people in the UK to live healthier at every stage in life through its 40,000-strong global workforce. In the UK the company has four sites, including one in Hatfield. With approximately 500 UK staff, the business provides access to affordable, high quality medicines to more than six million patients in the country each year. Matt Salzmann, UK Country Manager at Viatris, says: “We believe in healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. We are passionately committed to UK healthcare improvement and transformation. We know that good health matters to everyone, everywhere. This universal truth is the inspiration behind our mission and the reason we are focused on building sustainable partnerships is to improve healthcare and tackle health inequalities. As our UK business is headquartered in Hatfield the best place to start is here in Hertfordshire.”
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that we can add value to other organisations through our Global Healthcare Gateway. This offers our partners ready access to expanded markets through an innovative global infrastructure that accelerates opportunities to connect more people to the high-quality medicines and services they need.” Viatris is also giving back to the local community through its volunteer programme, where staff are able to use up to two days of work to carry out volunteering activities at organisations of their choice. Collectively, staff at the company have around 1,000 volunteer days to use in the community each year. Matt says: “We’d also like to use the Chamber’s quality membership base to further expand our presence in Hertfordshire. The Chamber is a highly professional organisation, easy to deal with and very supportive.
This is one of the prime reasons why Viatris recently became a Patron of Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce. The idea is to work with the local community to create new networks and contacts that will help the company to improve healthcare outcomes.
“In a way, their approach is very much aligned with ours. They’re very keen to facilitate partnership-building to achieve a greater good, while we’re changing our business model from a product-centric to a more customer-centric approach. To achieve this, we have to be more outward-facing and build connections. This will enable us to move to a future in which more people will have better access to high-quality affordable healthcare – and better access will lead to better health outcomes.”
Matt commented: “Being a Chamber Patron gives us the opportunity to capitalise on Hertfordshire’s strong pharma base but also to work with organisations that we might not ordinarily have connected with. While this will naturally benefit our business, we hope
“We are six months into our Viatris UK journey and we are excited to be able to partner with the Chamber and its members to begin to work together in realising our mission of healthcare not as it is, but how it should be.”
INSPIRE
We know that good health matters to everyone, everywhere. This universal truth is the inspiration behind our mission and the reason we are focused on building sustainable value-based partnerships to improve healthcare and tackle health inequalities. As our UK business is headquartered in Hatfield the best place to start is here in Hertfordshire.
