paracetamol

"After the weekend you'd come in feeling sick, dizzy, headaches. The treatment you'd receive would be a couple of paracetamol, and a hot bath. That's not care."

As the next 36 hours progressed so did the pain, and intravenous paracetamol and codeine were administered separately.

The High Street pharmacy chain Boots is asking customers to return packs of 500-milligram paracetamol tablets because a labelling error incorrectly states they are a different painkiller, aspirin.

The outer cardboard packaging is correctly labelled: "Paracetamol 500mg Tablets" but the inner foil blister pack of pills instead reads: "Aspirin 300mg Dispersable Tablets".

"Bizarrely it is harder to buy paracetamol in some respects than it is to buy a knife - that can't be right," he said.