NMC Record Keeping and Professional Duties

Use this page for Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) source-layer evidence about nursing, midwifery, and nursing-associate record keeping and professional candour.

Source-Layer Position

NMC evidence supports the professional-duty layer for NMC registrants. It requires clear and accurate records relevant to practice, completed at the time or as soon as possible, with risks, problems, actions, attribution, date/time, and secure handling.

What It Supports

Area	Supported record evidence
Timeliness	Records completed at the time or as soon as possible after the event.
Accuracy and clarity	Clear, accurate entries relevant to the care provided.
Risk and action	Risks, problems, steps taken, escalation, and follow-up.
Attribution and security	Entries attributable to the professional and securely stored.
Candour	Professional openness, explanation, apology, and record keeping when things go wrong.

What It Does Not Prove

NMC evidence does not prove the record content required for every nursing specialty, local provider policy, data-sharing agreement, clinical-safety case, product conformance, or national-service onboarding.

Deployment Evidence Needed

For electronic records, pair NMC duties with role-specific workflows, user attribution, date/time capture, risk/escalation fields, access controls, amendment workflow, local nursing policy, and training evidence.