Healthy Start Scheme: South Shields

(asked on 1st April 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many families receive Healthy Start in South Shields.


Answered by
Ashley Dalton Portrait
Ashley Dalton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 8th April 2025

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Monthly figures on the number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme are published on the NHS Healthy Start website, which is available at the following link:

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

The NHSBSA does not hold data on the number of families receiving Healthy Start. The number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme for South Tyneside in March 2025 was 1,162. The following table shows the number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme, broken down by all ward areas in South Tyneside, of which South Shields is a part, as the NHSBSA does not hold data on local constituencies:

Local authority

Ward

People on the digital scheme

South Tyneside

Beacon and Bents

44

South Tyneside

Bede

93

South Tyneside

Biddick and All Saints

160

South Tyneside

Boldon Colliery

65

South Tyneside

Cleadon and East Boldon

2

South Tyneside

Cleadon Park

50

South Tyneside

Fellgate and Hedworth

54

South Tyneside

Harton

59

South Tyneside

Hebburn North

79

South Tyneside

Hebburn South

65

South Tyneside

Horsley Hill

82

South Tyneside

Monkton

42

South Tyneside

Primrose

71

South Tyneside

Simonside and Rekendyke

121

South Tyneside

West Park

49

South Tyneside

Westoe

26

South Tyneside

Whitburn and Marsden

24

South Tyneside

Whiteleas

76

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