Blood sampling device

A blood sampling device comprising:

• (i) a housing having an aperture in a forward end thereof and defining a passage having a longitudinal axis;
• (ii) a lancet comprising a lancet body supporting a lancet tip at a forward end thereof, said lancet being moveably mounted within said housing;
• (iii) an urging member configured to urge said lancet forwardly in said housing in use from a primed position in which said lancet tip is located within said passage to a lancing position in which said lancet tip projects through said aperture in said forward end of said housing;
• (iv) a removable safety cap configured to at least partially cover said lancet tip in said passage in an initial assembled configuration;
• wherein said housing and said safety cap comprise cooperating abutment surfaces and cooperating stop surfaces,
• wherein the safety cap is rotatable in a first direction relative to said passage from a first blocked position in which said cooperating abutment surfaces are in abutment alignment to prevent removal of said safety cap from said housing to a second passage position in which said cooperating abutment surfaces are not in abutment alignment such that said safety cap can be removed from said housing;
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• wherein said stop surfaces cooperate to limit further rotation of said safety cap relative to said passage in said first direction when said safety cap is in said second passage position.