Table 1.

Data collection methods

Methods	Data collected
Qualitative interviews with staff Phase one sites Total number of interviews 17 Number of sites 4	Visits completed to two sites (including 16 face to face interviews) One site telephone interview One site no response (data drawn from interviews with Point of Care Foundation team and documents)
Observations of events Total number of events observed 12	Observations of all learning events in phase 1 (8 observations) Observation of celebration events (2 observations) Observation of events for scale up sites (2 observations)
Qualitative interviews with four remaining sites	Telephone interviews with all sites (4 interviews)
Focus groups with sites	One focus group completed, One teleconference call
Document review	Over 700 documents in the database, documenting all stages of the program, Sorted in to the batches of: key correspondences, program set up, financing, administration, application processes, training resources, performance and program outcome data.
Patient accounts	1 completed
Interviews with coaches involved in scale up phase	5 telephone interviews
Observations of scale up phase site visits	1 completed
Interviews with staff at the scale up phase sites	4 telephone interviews, 2 informal interviews
Interviews with Point of Care Foundation PFCC team	4 completed