What are parent and child department types and healthcare worker groups?

The HHCApp has a number of department types and healthcare worker groups that are pre-set in the system. These are known as parent departments and parent healthcare worker groups.

Individual health service organisations can further delineate parent department types and healthcare worker groups by creating child department types and healthcare workers groups to reflect local arrangements. For example, an organisation may choose to split the parent healthcare worker group Allied Health into three local child healthcare worker groups: physiotherapists, podiatrists, and exercise physiologists.

Creating a child department type or a child healthcare worker group effectively creates a second level of local categorisation which may assist in reporting local hand hygiene compliance rates and identifying specific healthcare worker groups or settings that could benefit from targeted education.

Current reports in the HHCApp will enable you to report by parent department types and parent healthcare worker groups or child - parent department types and child healthcare worker groups. It is not possible to run reports that mix both parent and child department types or parent and child healthcare worker groups, as this will cause double counting of the data.