Researchers and experts have said all schoolchildren should have compulsory vaccinations to stop measles outbreaks.
Misleading campaigns, they say, have contributed to a rise in cases of the highly contagious disease.
In March this year, there was a spike in measles cases, just a year after the UK was declared free of the disease for the first time by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Which? says there were 966 reported cases of measles in England in 2018 - a huge increase from the year before when Public Health England reported just 259 cases.
Most recently, on May 14, King's Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire warned patients and visitors who may have been in the hospital on certain dates may have contracted the disease - and told them to seek medical advice.
The BBC reported researchers from Bocconi University in Milan and the Bruno Kessler Foundation had raised concerns about vaccination rates in the US, Ireland, Australia and the UK.
They argued the existing voluntary approach in the country is not working.
WHO said the necessary level of vaccinations to protect the population is 95 percent, but in England the proportion of children receiving the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab by their fifth birthday has fallen to 87.2 percent over the last four years.
But Prof Adam Finn, of the University of Bristol, said that compulsory vaccinations might not work.
"Mandatory immunisation is certainly one way to try and increase coverage but it's far from clear how well it works or whether it would work at all in many places," he said.
"If the reasons that the vaccine is not getting into the children relate to easy access, vaccine supply or clarity of information available to parents, then making it compulsory will do nothing to alleviate such obstacles.
"If there is widespread mistrust of authority or of the motivation behind any such requirements, it could actually make things worse."
At the beginning of the year, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that he was willing to look at "all options" to boost England's vaccination levels, including compulsory immunisation.
Mr Hancock said he did not want to "reach the point" of imposing jabs, but would "rule nothing out".
In March, the head of NHS England warned "vaccination deniers" were gaining traction on social media.
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