Overall, the number of people requiring emergency treatment last year was 17,708 – up from 17,281 the previous year.

Luckily, health bosses have seen the funny side of the statistics.

Taking to Twitter, a governor at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Sarah Holmes, joked: “What we need is a public health campaign. Self care and all that!

“If you’re ever being chased by a crocodile, run in a zigzag pattern to give you time to reconsider your life choices.”

In 2017, then Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt also quipped about croc bite-prone patients.

He wrote at the time: “Sounds like I need to commission a strategy paper on this one”.

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