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#pharmacies

Nick TriggleHealth correspondent Getty Images Patients are being warned not to clog up A&E with everyday niggles as NHS figures show thousands turned to hospitals for minor ailments such as hiccups and ingrowing toenails last winter. There were more than 200,000 A&E attendances in England from November to February for conditions that could have been dealt with elsewhere, according to NHS England. This represents more than 2% of all attendances during that four-month period, taking up vital resources at under-pressure A&Es, health bosses said.

Experts have issued a warning to Mounjaro users over attempts to squeeze extra doses of the weight-loss drug out of prescribed syringes. Under weight loss plans set up through pharmacies, people pay for four weekly doses of the drug injected from a Kwickpen, which should be discarded after use, says the drug manufacturer Eli Lilly. However, some users are drawing out leftover liquid inside the pen - intended for priming before each injection - to create a fifth dose, dubbed the golden dose.