The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7501 p558
10 May 2008

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Healthy Start vitamins to be supplied through community pharmacies in Scotland

Community pharmacies in Scotland are set to have a key role in supplying vitamins through the Healthy Start scheme.

The news comes in an update to the scheme published last week by the Scottish Government. It says: “We are funding a pilot project within NHS Tayside and Fife which aims to test distributing the vitamins via the community pharmacy route.”
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The Government states that community pharmacies are “likely to be a key mechanism in the distribution of Healthy Start vitamins” in future but that, until the pilots are complete, NHS boards should use other distribution routes. The vitamins, which are supplied to children and pregnant women on low incomes, are currently supplied through health centres and clinics.