Healthy Start Scheme

(asked on 11th September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the uptake of the Healthy Start scheme in (a) the South East and (b) England was in the past year.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 14th September 2023

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Monthly uptake figures for the Healthy Start scheme, including uptake figures for England, are published on the NHS Healthy Start website, and are available at the following link:

https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/healthcare-professionals/

Monthly uptake figures for the Healthy Start scheme are not available from March 2022 to December 2022, as the data needed to calculate uptake was not made available to the NHSBSA.

Monthly uptake figures for the South East since January 2023 are set out in the table below:

January 2023

61.6%

February 2023

62.4%

March 2023

63.0%

April 2023

63.7%

May 2023

64.1%

June 2023

63.9%

July 2023

63.4%

August 2023

64.7%

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