Table 1.

Participants

Participant's place of work	Brief description of role in outbreak response	Years working in the role	Number of interviews
			Liverpool	Leeds	Birmingham
Public Health England (PHE) Health Protection Team (HPT) (e.g. Consultant in Health Protection, Nurse Consultant in Health Protection, Health Protection Practitioner)	– HPTs receive notifications of infectious diseases and are responsible for looking at the epidemiology of outbreaks – HPTs are responsible for convening and chairing outbreak control meetings/local incident management meetings/daily clinical review meetings – HPTs make risk assessments and use this, along with their insight into outbreak epidemiology, to inform disease prevention and control activities – Preventative and reactive role	3–5	1	1	5
Screening and Immunisation Team (SIT) (e.g. Screening and Immunisation Team Manager)	– Advise on the commissioning of vaccinations (under Section 7a of the Health and Social Care Act) – Offer vaccinations in schools and community settings		1	2	1
Practice nurse	Explaining, promoting and delivering vaccinations	2–25	–	4	1
General practitioner	Promoting GP access/vaccination uptake amongst underserved, including Romanian, communities	15	–	1
GP practice manager	Involved in call/recall systems (inviting and reminding patients about vaccinations)	2–4	–	3	2
Local government (e.g. local authority public health team or local council divisions i.e. Education, Health)	Improving access to health services and vaccinations. Providing links to communities and helping to facilitate engagement	10–25	1	–	4
School Nursing Team	Explaining, promoting and delivering vaccinations		1	–	–
Community Immunisation Nursing Team	Working alongside GPs to improve vaccination uptake in underimmunised children in the community		2	–	–
Social Exclusion Team	Main role is supporting asylum seekers and w orking with Eastern European communities	1–10	2	–	–
Health visitor	Explaining and promoting vaccinations		–	–	1
Total = 33			8	11	14