32 are pressed and the drawer moved forwardly to allow access to the syringe which is removed referring to fig9 and 10 the traditional method of administering a subcutaneous injection with a syringe without an auto injector is to pinch the flesh skin at the injection site and to insert the needle at the centre of the pinched fold of skin this creates depth in the subcutaneous layer ensuring the needle does not enter the muscle layer below it also relieves pressure under the skin thereby making it easier to inject the drug with some known types of auto injector the surface area of the device contacting the skin is typically relatively small and immediately adjacent the injection axis such devices can therefore have the effect of actually thinning the subcutaneous layer due to the pressure and increasing pressure under the skin especially if the footprint is small however in the present embodiments it will be noted that the nose 20 has a rounded u2018 w u2019 profile where it contacts the injection site defining two lobes 72 to either side of the injection axis applying pressure to two spaced locations to either side of the injection axis provides an effect similar to the pinching action commonly used when injecting into the subcutaneous layer it will be appreciated that this contact surface may be used on a wide variety of different devices beyond the embodiments described herein fig1 a and b describe a variation of this technique where the lobes of the injection contact surface instead of being static are defined on the ends of flexible arms which are configured such that as pressure is applied to the arms the contact.