With Healthy Start, you can get free vouchers every week which you swap for milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk. You can also get free vitamins. Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme.
MacMillan Cancer Support can give adivice about getting financial help whilst living with cancer. Sometimes, whilst people are ill, they may have to stop work for a while or reduce their hours of work. They may need help with travel costs and parking charges whilst visiting hospital. Dental and eye tests can be costly and there is also help for this. There is also lots of information about Disability L:iving Allowance and other supporting benefits. Look at www.macmillan.org.uk/abetterdeal
The haemoglobinopthies are a group of genetic blood disorders in which either the structure (sickle cell disorders) or the quantity (thalassaemias) of haemoglobin produced is affected.
Sickle cell disorder (SCD) and beta thalassaemia major are two of the most common haemoglobinopathies.
