This is a follow up to the study of student nurses' progress reports published in 1966. Replies showed that there would appear to be an increasing realisation of the importance of progress reports and of the need for further study of the subject. The General Nursing Council for England and Wales have maintained a keen interest in the two surveys and, as a result of the King's Fund reports, have asked the Hospital Centre to join them in setting up a working party to study the possibility of designing a national progress report form for student nurses.