Specialist nutrition helps people to be healthy, survive and thrive at every stage of their lives. It supports positive health outcomes and reduces costs to the NHS.

This month's CN Column discusses two main topics:

• A pathway for ONS use in the management of malnutrition in COPD. This discusses how ONS are a clincally and cost effective way of managing malnutrition for patients with COPD

• The standardisation of parenteral nutrition, which has come about from Lord Carter's review into productivity within hospitals across England

The full article can be viewed here.