Healthy Start Scheme Vitamin Research: FOI release

Information requested

Research/data that focused on the effect of Healthy Start vitamins on pregnancy outcomes. Also, why Vitamin C, Vitamin D and Folic acid have been supplied to mothers across Scotland and what research has led to this policy.

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested and this is attached in the Annex. Some of the information you have requested is available from www.gov.scot, www.nice.org.uk, www.gov.uk. Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you.

However, I have provided direct links to the content used at the time of the decision in the Annex.

ANNEX
REASONS FOR NOT PROVIDING SOME OF THIS INFORMATION

Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. However, I have provided direct links below to the content used at the time of the decision, which is also on the websites listed in the response.

• Review of the Distribution of Healthy Start Vitamins Through Community Pharmacies - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
• Healthy start vitamins: special report on cost effectiveness (nice.org.uk)
• Evaluation of the Healthy Start Scheme: An Evidence Review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
• SACN vitamin D and health report - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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FOI 202400395337 - Information Released - Annex

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