Healthy Vitamins

• Folic acid (reduces the chance of your baby having spina bifida, a birth defect where the spine doesn’t form properly)
• Vitamin C (helps maintain healthy tissue in the body)
• Vitamin D (helps your body to absorb calcium and so supports your baby’s bones to develop properly).

Healthy Start children’s vitamins contain

• Vitamin A (for growth, vision in dim light and healthy skin),
• Vitamin C (helps maintain healthy tissue in the body), Vitamin D (for strong bones and teeth).
• More information on Healthy Start vitamins can be found on the Healthy Start website, or call Claire Wass, Public Health Officer on 020 8489 1031. You can pick up an application form and get your healthy start vitamins from any of the children’s centres and participating pharmacies listed below

Children’s Centres

• Woodlands Park Children’s Centre Woodlands Park Road, N15 3SD
• Triangle Children, Young People and Community Centre 91-93 St Ann’s Road, N15 6NU
• The Ladder Children’s Centre Pemberton Road, N4 1BA
• Welbourne Children’s Centre Stainby Road, N15 4EA
• Broadwater Children’s Centre Adams Road, N17 6HE
• Campsbourne Children’s Centre Nightingale Lane, N8 7AF
• Earlsmead Children’s Centre Broad Lane, N15 4PW
• Noel Park Children’s Centre Shropshire Hall, Gladstone Avenue, N22 6LD
• South Grove Children’s Centre South Grove, N15 5QE
• Woodside Children’s Centre 59 White Hart Lane, N22 5SJ

Pharmacies – Pharmacy / health centres that offer Healthy start vitamins

• Boots 137-139 High Road, N22 6BA
• The Cadge Pharmacy 105 Philip Lane, N15 4JR
• Safedale Pharmacy 491-493 Seven Sisters Road, N15 6EP
• Tesco Pharmacy 230 High Road, N15 4AJ
• Dowsett Pharmacy 57 Dowsett Road, N17 9DD
• DP Mark Chemist 4 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, N4 1JX
• Pharmacy Express 214 High Road, N22 8HH
• Phillips Chemist 193 Lordship Lane, N17 6XE