Awarded contract

DHSC:GAPH: Competency Framework for 0-5 Health Visiting Teams

Details

Buyer: Department of Health and Social Care
Supplier(s): Institute of Health Visiting
Value: £41,595.85
Duration: 9 months
Topic: Health services
Published: 19 June 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The Healthy Child Programme sets out the role of Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (health visitors and school nurses), skill‑mix teams, clinical oversight, supervision, and expectations of competence across 0–19 delivery. It explicitly recognises the requirement for competent, suitably qualified staff delivering proportionate, evidence‑based interventions. While the guidance articulates what good looks like, and acknowledges the need for registered nurses to be accountable according to Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidance, there is currently no nationally agreed competency framework that translates these expectations into a consistent, practical description of the knowledge, skills and professional behaviours required of practitioners delivering the HCP across different roles and levels of service. This creates variation in how competence in skill mix teams is interpreted, developed, assured and commissioned locally. Commissioning a national competency framework would address this gap and provide a shared foundation for workforce capability, quality assurance and service improvement. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published19 June 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date19 June 2026
Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 5 months

About the buyer

The Department of Health and Social Care sets health and social care policy for England, and buys as a central healthcare organisation through contracts tiered by value. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and the Crown Commercial Service.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Department of Health and Social Care's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and health and social work.

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