Healthy Start Scheme
The Healthy Start scheme is run by NHS England. It provides Healthy Start cards for pregnant women and families with a child under four years old on a low income to buy basic food items.
You can use your card to buy:
- plain liquid cow’s milk
- fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables
- fresh, dried, and tinned pulses
- infant formula milk based on cow’s milk
You can also use your card to collect:
- Free Healthy Start vitamin tablets for pregnant and breastfeeding people that have a child under 1 year old.
- Free Vitamin drops for breastfed babies, babies that are having less than 500ml (about one pint) of infant formula a day and children up to the age of 4.
Click here to complete the application form.
For further information visit the Healthy Start website.