Practice hours logging for NMC revalidation and professional records

For contracted or ongoing roles, enter a start date and end date, or mark a role as current. HandyCPD can estimate practice hours from the working pattern you describe, so you do not need to count every week manually when a role-based estimate is enough for your records.

The hours overview brings manual entries and role-based estimates together so you can review your position across a chosen period or revalidation cycle. For NMC nurses and midwives, this can support awareness of the 450-hour practice requirement across a typical three-year revalidation cycle — it helps organise and review records, not prove compliance.

When your profile is set as an NMC nurse or midwife, Practice Hours Logging is available with NMC-oriented wording and field options. The feature is not limited to NMC users: other professionals can log work hours with a simpler field set for general professional records.

HandyCPD is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NMC and does not guarantee revalidation or compliance outcomes. You remain responsible for checking that your records meet NMC, employer or other professional requirements.

Combine direct hour entries with estimated hours from contracted or ongoing roles. Estimates can save time, but you remain responsible for checking that totals and details are accurate before relying on them for revalidation, appraisal or employer review.

Practice Hours Logging sits alongside your wider CPD workflow. Use CPD Logging to record learning activities, the Reflection Engine to reflect on meaningful learning, Standards Mapping to connect CPD to relevant frameworks, the Evidence Library to store professional evidence such as research papers, certificates and training documents, CPD Analytics to review themes and patterns, the CPD Dashboard to see recent activity, and CPD PDF Export when you need reviewed records for your portfolio.