Templates that log your hours against your target, prompt reflections that actually say something, and keep you audit-ready all year. Written by a paramedic with nearly 40 years on the road.
Set up for the Paramedic Council in New Zealand, the Paramedicine Board of Australia, the HCPC in the UK and the NREMT in the USA, with a "set my own target" option for state systems. Choose where you're registered, put your name in, and start logging.
Log each activity once. It totals your hours against your target (NZ 25 or 30, AU 30, NREMT 60, or your state's), tracks what your regulator asks for (NZ culture hours, AU interactive hours, NREMT National/State/Individual hours, the HCPC's mix of activities) and flags anything still missing a reflection or evidence.
What? So what? Now what? One page for everyday CPD: an article, a podcast, a short course, a job that made you think.
Six guided stages for significant jobs and critical incidents, with prompts that get you past "I learned a lot".
A completed reflection on a fictional paediatric job, showing the level of detail to aim for, including whānau and culture.
Learning goals, a mid-year check-in, an end-of-year summary and an audit-ready checklist for renewal time.
Every template as a PDF for printing, plus a start-here guide to the rules in all four countries and ten habits that make audits painless.
The one-page template from the pack, free. Print it, fill it in after your next shift, and share it with your crew.
No email needed. If it helps, the full pack has the hours tracker, the Gibbs template, a worked example and the annual plan.
The short version of what each regulator asks for. The CPD log tracks all of it.
Te Kaunihera Manapou Paramedic Council
Paramedicine Board of Australia (Ahpra)
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
National Registry of EMTs (NREMT), 2025 model
Checked 31 October 2026 against the Paramedic Council, the Paramedicine Board, the HCPC and the NREMT. Rules change, and US states can add their own, so always check your regulator before you renew.
Hours tracker, reflection templates, a worked example and an annual plan for NZ and Australian paramedics.
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I'm Colin Bamforth. I've spent nearly 40 years as a paramedic and clinical educator across New Zealand, Australia and the UK, and I've filled in more CPD logs than I'd like to count.
These templates are the ones I wish I'd had: quick to fill in on a day off, honest about what auditors actually look for, and clear about the difference between the NZ and Australian rules.
No. It's a set of templates to help you meet the requirements and keep good records. The Paramedic Council and the Paramedicine Board publish their own requirements, and those always come first. The pack follows them and links to them.
Yes. The log works in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers and LibreOffice, and the templates open in Word, Google Docs and Pages. Every template is also included as a PDF you can print.
New Zealand (including specialist endorsements), Australia, the UK (HCPC) and the USA. Pick where you're registered in the log and it sets the target and tracks the extras: culture hours in NZ, interactive hours in Australia, the HCPC's mix of activities and benefit to service users, and the NREMT's National, State/Local and Individual hours.
Yes. Choose "USA – my state / other", type in your state's hours and cycle length, and the log tracks against them. Check your state EMS office for its current rules and approved courses.
Yes. Save a fresh copy of the log at the start of each CPD year and keep the old one as your record.
The pack is licensed to the person who buys it. The free quick reflection template can be shared with anyone. A team licence for a whole station or service is US$49; get in touch to arrange one.
Email contact@manicmedic.com within 14 days and you'll get a refund.