Reflective statement builder

This free builder works as a reflective statement template for NMC registrants and for every other UK healthcare and social work regulator. Choose your regulator and it gives you six prompts that follow the structure of that regulator's standards. You write each part in your own words. As you go, it counts your words and checks for details that could identify a patient or service user, such as a name with a title, an NHS-style number, a date of birth, a postcode, an age or a bed number.

When you are ready, you can print the statement or save it as a PDF, copy the text, or download it as a plain text file to paste into your regulator's own form. The builder never generates or rewrites your words. That matters: a reflection is only useful if it is genuinely yours.

Use it for revalidation reflective accounts, for a statement during a fitness to practise process, or simply to make sense of a difficult event at work.

For revalidation, the NMC asks for five written reflective accounts on its form in each three-year cycle. Each must explain what you learned from a CPD activity, feedback or an event, how you changed or improved your practice, and how it relates to the Code, and none may include information that could identify another person (NMC written reflective accounts). You then discuss the accounts with another NMC registrant in a reflective discussion.

In fitness to practise, the NMC treats insight as usually central to deciding current impairment (NMC FtP library), and it publishes an optional reflective account form for people with a concern. The builder's NMC prompts follow a similar order. If your regulator or representative asks for a particular form, copy your text across into it.

As you write, the builder looks for patterns that often identify someone and lists anything it finds under "Check before you share". It flags:

• a title followed by a name, such as Mrs or Dr and a surname;
• a 10-digit number that could be an NHS number;
• a full date that could be a date of birth;
• a postcode;
• an age, such as "aged 82";
• a bed or room number; and
• a hospital, patient or record number.

It cannot catch everything. A rare condition, a place and a date together can identify someone without any of the patterns above, so read your statement through yourself before you share it.

Your statement is saved in your own browser so you can return to it. It is never sent to Healthcare Practise UK. Use "Print or save as PDF", "Copy text" or "Download .txt" to keep a copy, and "Delete my answers" to remove it from the device, especially on a shared computer.