Table 1 Interview Guide

Describe your role and the patients in your care? (Asked in individual and group interviews not forum).

Tell me about the children in your care with chronic and complex conditions? E.g. characteristics that help to identify in the children who present most frequently for care, or in the type of care they require?

What problems do these children and their families experience when accessing appropriate care? What does this mean for them?

What services do these children need? Locally, tertiary? Gaps/duplications in the available services?

What care are these children accessing through the tertiary system that could be safely provided locally? What needs to change to provide that care locally?

What care can you provide for these children in your practice/hospital? What support do you need to provide that support?

What have children and their families said they would like to see changed in the delivery of health services? What change would you like to see?