Students face many pressures today - pressure to be successful, financial worries
and uncertainty about future career prospects. But good health is often taken for
granted. It has taken publicity about recurring cases on meningococcal disease at
university to bring home to students, universities and their associated doctors that
students are at risk.

In response, the British Association of Health Services in Higher Education
(BAHSHE), the Association of Managers of Student Services in Higher Education
(AMOSSHE), the Health Protection Agency (HPA), the National Public Health Service
for Wales, the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, the Public
Health Medicine Environment Group (PHMEG), and the Student Experience Strategy
Group of Universities UK have revised practical guidelines on the management of
meningococcal disease.