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Find your profession and jurisdiction, check the official guidance and keep your own learning record in Passport. Hours, credits, reflective plans and renewal cycles differ between bodies.
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Meet the recertification programme applicable to registration scope. General-scope Inpractice normally includes annually 20 hours CME, 10 hours peer review, a development plan, an audit and four collegial meetings; vocational programmes and exceptions differ. No single council-wide annual hours total.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Practising nurses must meet competence standards, complete at least 60 hours relevant professional development and 450 practice hours over the previous 36 months. Practice hours are not CPD. Nurse practitioners have additional/specific requirements.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Annual recertification requires a recorded professional peer, development plan, development activities, written reflection, peer confirmation and APC declaration. Flexible competence-based programme, not a fixed annual CPD-hours quota; new overseas registrants have an additional programme.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Complete MyRecert portfolio each APC year: two learning goals, critical reflection, cultural-safety action, two peer-group meetings, at least one keeping-up-to-date activity, and two verifier meetings with final sign-off. Council does not prescribe time spent learning.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
APC holders must participate in the relevant recertification programme and complete its annual development and reflective requirements. Scope-specific and Express Pathway requirements may also apply. Consult linked guidelines for the full activity and hours rules; no annual hours figure asserted here.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Continuing Competence Programme uses annual self-reflective review, learning objectives and plan, recorded activities, reflection on outcomes and competence/supervisor declarations. This row does not assert a fixed annual learning-hours quota.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Practising-certificate holders must participate in the ePortfolio and have an ePortfolio supervisor. Evidence covers continuing competence and professional development, using self-assessment, goals, activities and reflection; no fixed annual CPD-hours quota asserted.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Two-year standard targets: optometrists 40 CPD credits; dispensing opticians 20 credits. Each cycle includes one cultural-safety and one ethical credit. Targets can be adjusted; specialist scope has additional requirements. Credits are not represented as hours.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Lawyers providing regulated services complete at least 10 CPD hours per full year (1 April-31 March), with a CPD plan and record, reflection and compliance declaration. Pro-rating, exemptions and up to five hours carry-forward apply; non-service certificate holders still have planning/declaration obligations.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
CA ANZ · New Zealand · Accounting
Official CPD guidanceCAs/FCAs and affiliates: 120 hours per triennium, including 90 verifiable and at least 20 verifiable annually. ACAs: 90/67 with 15 verifiable annually; ATs: 60/45 with 10 verifiable annually. Ethics and role-specific requirements also apply. No single annual minimum across designations.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Emerging Professionals, Members, Chartered Members, Fellows and Distinguished Fellows commit to at least 40 hours CPD annually, subject to career-break/retired exemptions. Self-learning should not exceed 50%. CPEng assessment has separate evidence expectations; membership is not itself statutory registration.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Teaching Council · New Zealand · Teaching
Official CPD guidanceProfessional Growth Cycle supports ongoing professional learning, reflection and development using the Standards. It is a practice/growth framework, not a universal annual CPD-hours target. Do not equate practising-certificate validity with a CPD-hours cycle.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
All veterinarians must engage in CPD under the framework introduced in 2021, using planning, recording and reflection appropriate to their development needs. New graduates require a mentor in their first practice year. Do not reuse the superseded pre-2021 points rules.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Continuing registration assesses competence and steps taken to stay current over five years. Board guidance describes a usual aspirational target of 1,000 CPD points, including 100 in each of five competency/core categories; other professional-development evidence may be considered. Points are not annual hours.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Minimum 20 CPD hours each practising-certificate year (1 July-30 June), logged against relevant core competencies. At least one activity each year must address competence to work with Māori; all ten competencies need not be covered annually.
Source reviewed 2026-10-31. Check the latest rules and any exemptions with your body.
Independent recording tool, not endorsed by these bodies. Annual targets are editable planning aids, not compliance checks. Passport does not submit returns, approve activities or convert hours into regulator credits. Published standards tags are available only for existing supported frameworks.
WorkplaceHero is an independent record-keeping tool. We do not accredit learning, certify compliance or guarantee that a regulator will accept your record - meeting your regulator's requirements remains your responsibility. We research regulator and professional body guidance from official sources, record the source and the date we last checked it, and review entries when rules change. Requirements can change without notice, so always confirm the current rules, exemptions and deadlines with your regulator or professional body before relying on them. If you spot something out of date, tell us and we will check and correct it. Report an update
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Nurses show professional development to the Nursing Council, doctors recertify with the Medical Council, lawyers keep a CPD plan with the Law Society and teachers renew with the Teaching Council. One record keeps it all together.
Add the activity, date, provider and time spent. Courses are only the start - record supervision, reading and learning from practice too.
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Matching a year of CPD to the Nursing Council of New Zealand, Medical Council of New Zealand, Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand, CA ANZ, the New Zealand Law Society, Engineering New Zealand standards is the slow bit before your return. The coach reads your entries and suggests where they fit. It is a second pair of eyes, not a sign-off.
Courses, reading, casework, supervision. About 30 seconds an entry, with a line on what you took from it.
It reads your entries against your regulator's published standards and suggests where each one might fit, with its reason. Fast-changing topics like GDPR, AML or tax need learning from the last 12 months.
Nothing is linked until you tap it. You stay in charge of your record and your declaration, and the coach points out standards you have not evidenced yet.
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Ethics and professional judgement update
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WorkplaceHero helps you organise your CPD. It does not replace the current requirements of your regulator or professional body. WorkplaceHero is an independent record-keeping tool. We do not accredit learning, certify compliance or guarantee that a regulator will accept your record - meeting your regulator's requirements remains your responsibility. We research regulator and professional body guidance from official sources, record the source and the date we last checked it, and review entries when rules change. Requirements can change without notice, so always confirm the current rules, exemptions and deadlines with your regulator or professional body before relying on them. If you spot something out of date, tell us and we will check and correct it. Report an update
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