Table 2.

Views of health professionals on who is the best person to give advice to parents at the time that the second measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination is due. Figures are numbers (percentage of professional group)

	General practioner	Practice nurse	Health visitor	Community paediatrician	Other
General practitioners (n=147)	30 (20)	25 (17)	85 (58)	5 (3)	2 (1)
Health visitors (n=137)	14 (10)	5 (4)	95 (70)	5 (4)	18 (13)
Practice nurses (n=161)	42 (26)	32 (20)	66 (41)	4 (3)	17 (11)
Total (n=445)	86 (19)	62 (14)	246 (55)	14 (3)	37 (8)