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NMC revalidation tracker
Five parts of your revalidation evidence in one place, and a portfolio PDF when you are ready to submit.
Nurses and midwives on the NMC register revalidate every three years. For each cycle the NMC asks for 450 practice hours (900 if you are registered as both a nurse and a midwife, 450 in each), 35 hours of CPD of which at least 20 are participatory, five pieces of practice-related feedback, five written reflective accounts that relate to the Code, a reflective discussion, a health and character declaration, a professional indemnity arrangement, and confirmation. Sessional's tracker keeps five of those in one place (practice hours, CPD, reflective accounts, feedback and the confirmation), free on every plan including Basic, and builds a portfolio PDF. The reflective discussion, the health and character declaration and the indemnity arrangement are not recorded in Sessional yet. If you hold both registrations, the tracker counts your hours as one total against 900 and does not check the 450 in each part for you. It does not submit your application to the NMC, and the NMC does not endorse it.
Checked on 26 September 2026 against the NMC's revalidation requirements, including practice hours, CPD, practice-related feedback and written reflective accounts.
Who it is for
Every UK nurse and midwife on the NMC register has to revalidate every three years. The tracker is available on every account whose profession is Nurse or Midwife, on every plan.
What evidence does NMC revalidation need?
Practice hours
Free on every tier450 hours over three years for a single registration. Dual nurse and midwife registrants need 450 hours in each part of the register. The tracker counts one running total against 900 for a dual registrant and does not split it by part of the register, so keep that split yourself.
CPD
Tracked35 hours in total, with at least 20 participatory hours.
Reflective accounts
TrackedFive written reflections linked to the NMC Code, anonymised and ready to review.
Feedback
TrackedFive pieces of practice-related feedback, from patient, colleague, manager, peer, or other.
Confirmation
TrackedOne confirmation discussion with a suitable confirmer before you submit.
How the dashboard works
Open NMC Revalidation in the Professional group of the dashboard menu (More on a phone) and use the sections on the page to add evidence.
The dashboard shows the progress against each target, every entry you have saved (ten to a page under each heading), and a download button that generates a single PDF combining the cover, summary, and every entry. An entry dated outside your current cycle, or in the future, stays in the list with a note saying why it is not counted.
The evidence checklist
What the tracker does not hold
Important
When does my revalidation cycle start?
Note
Editing and deleting entries
Every entry in the lists can be opened to read it back, edited, or deleted. Delete asks you to confirm first. One kind of entry cannot be edited: a feedback entry logged from a feedback round carries that round's own figures, so delete it if it should not be in your record.
Text that is over a box's limit is not cut for you: the count under the box turns red and the entry is not saved until you shorten it. A form you have started stays filled in while you move between the sections of the page, and the browser asks before a reload discards it.
Privacy
- Everything you enter is stored on UK servers, encrypted at rest, and is only visible to you and support if you ask for help.
- One exception, and it is yours to choose: if you use the assistant or dictate a note, the text or the recording is processed by OVHcloud AI Endpoints in France, under the UK adequacy decision, and is not kept or used for training. Nothing is sent until you press the button that sends it.
- The portfolio PDF is generated on demand and streamed directly to you. No cached copy is stored.
- Patient identifiable information should not appear in reflective accounts.