Additional suggested reading and resources:
◠ HSIS – Health Supplement Information Centre – www.hsis.org
◠ PAGB / HSIS – ‘The hidden health challenges – the importance of nutrition as we age’. February 2016 – www.pagb.co.uk/publications/pdfs/AgeingReport09.3.pdf
◠ British Dietetic Association – BDA Food Fact Sheets – www.bda.uk.com/ foodfacts/home
References
1. HSCIC. Prescription Cost Analysis, England – 2015. Published April 7, 2016 –www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB20200
2. The Grocer. Healthcare & Supplements Category Report 2016. www.thegrocer.co.uk/reports/category-reports/focus-on-healthcare-andsupplements/238622.article
3. Mintel ‘Vitamins and Supplements – UK – September 2015’ – http://store.mintel.com/vitamins-and-supplements-uk-september-2015
4. Healthy Start – www.healthystart.nhs.uk/
5. A McFadden et al. ‘Healthy Start vitamins – a missed opportunity: findings of a multimethod study’. BMJ Open 2015;5: e006917BMJ Open 2015;5:e006917. Published online January 8 2015 – http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/1/e006917.full
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7. NICE article [pmg25]. ‘Healthy start vitamins: special report on cost effectiveness’. Published November 2015 – www.nice.org.uk/article/pmg25/chapter/Executive-summary
8. Scottish Government. ‘All pregnant women to receive vitamins’. Published online June 1 2016 – http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/All-pregnant-women-to-receive-vitamins-251d.aspx
9. SACN. ‘Vitamin D and Health’. July 2016 – www.gov.uk/government/publications/sacn-vitamin-d-and-health-reportÂ
10. OO Balogun et al. Vitamin supplementation for preventing miscarriage. Cochrane Review. Published online May 6 2016 - http://www.cochrane.org/CD004073/PREG_vitamin-supplementation-preventing-miscarriage
11. Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) - https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/scientific-advisory-committee-on-nutrition
12. Public Health England. ‘PHE publishes new advice on vitamin D - summary of new advice on vitamin D’. July 21 2016 - www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-publishes-new-advice-on-vitamin-d