Healthy Start Scheme
(asked on 17th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many beneficiaries of the Healthy Start scheme there were (a) before and (b) after digitisation of that scheme; and if he will provide an update.
This question was answered on 28th March 2022
The NHS Business Services Authority is currently transferring Healthy Start beneficiaries from the paper voucher scheme to the digital scheme. Once the transition process is complete, the number of beneficiaries on the digital scheme will be made available. Prior to the transition process, there were 346,754 beneficiaries on the Healthy Start paper voucher scheme.