# VIG \(Video Interactive Guidance\) supervision

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [NHS England](/buyers/nhs-england/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Video Interaction Guidance hk \(VIGhk\)
- Award value: £48,950
- Tender value: £49,000
- Award date: 22 November 2021
- Published: 13 December 2021
- Contract start: 24 November 2021
- Contract end: 31 March 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: d1473500-9f90-42be-9274-b13de1261371-493595
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-a0041e52-ea7c-4af0-b909-fdff9544d9e6

## Description

The Authority is looking for The Long term plan for Mental Health has a number of key ambitions for Perinatal Mental Health \(PMH\) including Increasing access to Psychological Therapies; extending service provision to women from 1 to 2 years; and increasing numbers of women accessing PMH services\. Training clinicians to deliver supervision to professionals who are trained and providing Video Interactive Guidance\( VIG\) an psychological intervention will contribute to services achieving all three ambitions\. Currently there are a number of professionals who are trained to carry out the intervention but do not have adequate or recommended supervision which is essential in carrying out a safe and supportive intervention with women and their babies\. The objective is to build up the number of accredited VIG practitioners within the current workforce and for women to be able access VIG London wide from appropriately Supervised practitioners\. The provision of VIG to women is fully supported by NICE guidance and is a recommended training in the Health Education England \(HEE\) Perinatal Training Directory\. The provision of a supervision structure is also in line with formal Competency Framework for Perinatal Mental Health developed by HEE\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d1473500-9f90-42be-9274-b13de1261371-493595)