Services Database Healthy Start Vitamins
Service ID
292117
Description
The Healthy Start Vitamins service enables community pharmacies to provide:
- Healthy Start Vitamins for pregnant women;
- Healthy Start Vitamins for women with a child under 12 months; and
- Healthy Start Vitamins for children aged 6 months to 4 years (or from 4 weeks old in some circumstances).
Through the scheme, eligible recipients receive weekly vouchers which can be exchanged for cow's milk, plain fresh or frozen fruit and vegetables and infant formula milk.
Location of service
Sunderland LPC
Commissioner
Local Authority (LA)
Method of commissioning
Source of funding
Local Authority (LA)
Service type
Healthy Start vitamins
Other organisations involved
Dates
Start date:
End date:
Status
Ongoing
Training
Not known.
