Elizabeth Smout, public health specialist registrar1, Dominic Mellon, regional deputy director for health protection (south west),, Maggie Rae, president of epidemiological and public health section3 1South West Regional Public Health Training Programme, UK 2UK Health Security Agency, London, UK 3Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to: M Rae maggiemrae@outlook.com Increasing vaccine uptake is critical to controlling pertussis outbreaks Pertussis incidence is high and climbing...