Table 2.

Perceptions of staff around acceptance and uptake in specific nationality groups

Participant reporting	Quote
GP	‘…now it’s more Bangladeshi, so Somalian was really with the MMR thing. But we still find more Bangladeshi families delaying or refusing the immunisation of their babies……So, yes they always blame… This is too much, the baby is young, we’re not sure about the long term effects.’
GP	‘[The Somalian population]…is a massive concern for us, with regards the patients unfortunately, falsely attributing MMR with an autism link……. I think it was the belief of autism, but why more in the Somali community than any other minority group, I’m not too sure.’
HCA	‘[The Somalian population are] … very happy to vaccinate as elderly patients. But, [they think]…the children will get something, get over it. And I think with MMR, they do feel that there’s side effects. They think that it causes Autism and things like that.’
Practice nurse	‘I don’t know where, Somalia or Eritrea that there was only one interpreter in London who could speak their language. Even their care worker obviously could not speak their language. And so, trying to get immunisation history or any history out of these two young men was totally impossible.’
HCA	‘I would say that Europeans [migrants], they refuse because they think they’ve had them, even if it’s been a long time and they don’t know.’
GP	‘What I have noticed is that when a patient comes from… Eastern European countries… they do come in with a vaccination record. It’s usually incomplete… and sometimes we doubt [it is true and], whether…you can pay someone to give you a vaccination record but it actually hasn’t happened.’

GP, general practitioner; HCA, healthcare assistant.