>Heather, does Healthy Start track what the vouchers are used for?


I don't know, sorry.

I think the main operational difference between Healthy Start and WIC 
is that the UK state does not buy formula and has no direct 
commercial relationship with the formula manufactures. Healthy Start 
is a *retailer* based scheme, and the retailer is reimbursed for the 
monetary value of the voucher. Mothers go into shops to exchange the 
vouchers.

The scheme is several years old now, but it springs from the old 
Welfare Foods programme which gave 'milk tokens' to families, which 
they exchanged at shops or at baby clinics. Clinics stopped providing 
formula about 20 years ago.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK




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>Julie Tardos ==== I went to rehab in wine country just to keep my 
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>Date:    Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:26:04 +0000
>From:    the juliest person you know <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: musing about WIC and encouraging breastfeeding
>
>What if WIC checks were offered that could be used EITHER for 
>formula OR for fruits and vegetables?  I know the current system 
>would not allow for that, but that could be changed.
>Your thoughts?
>Julie Tardos ==== I went to rehab in wine country just to keep my 
>options open.  -- Robin Williams
>
>
>
>Date:    Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:03:11 +0000
>From:    heather <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: musing about WIC and encouraging breastfeeding
>
>>What if WIC checks were offered that could be used EITHER for
>>formula OR for fruits and vegetables?  I know the current system
>>would not allow for that, but that could be changed.
>>Your thoughts?
>>Julie Tardos
>
>
>That's what is done in the UK, with Healthy Start vouchers.
>
>https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/
>
>Heather Welford Neil
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