Regulation 7 Provision of Healthy Start vitaminsF1I1

After regulation 8 of the principal Regulations insert—

“Provision of Healthy Start vitamins

8A.

(1)

A health service body is—

(a)

in relation to England and Wales, a Primary Care Trust, a NHS trust, a NHS foundation trust or a Local Health Board that provides a maternity or child health clinic; and

(b)

in relation to Scotland, a Health Board.

(2)

A health service body shall have the function of providing Healthy Start vitamins for beneficiaries.

(3)

A health service body may make arrangements for a pharmacist or other person or body to supply Healthy Start vitamins for beneficiaries on its behalf.

(4)

Where a health service body makes arrangements under paragraph (2) it must inform beneficiaries where they may obtain Healthy Start vitamins.

(5)

A beneficiary who is entitled to Healthy Start vitamins must produce documentary evidence of her entitlement to a person who supplies Healthy Start vitamins for beneficiaries.

(6)

For the purposes of paragraph (4), documentary evidence of entitlement may consist of a letter from the Secretary of State that confirms the entitlement of the beneficiary to Healthy Start food and, if requested by the person who supplies the Healthy Start vitamins in respect of a beneficiary who is a child, documentary evidence of the child’s age.

(7)

The Secretary of State shall pay a health service body an amount equal to the cost of the Healthy Start vitamins that the health service body has provided (or secured the provision of) to a beneficiary.”