A NURSE has been struck off after a disciplinary hearing heard that she did not care properly for elderly people during the night at Avonmead Care Home, Devizes.

She admitted that she had said to a colleague about one elderly diabetic woman: "I am not going to re-position her, if I wake her up she be ring, ring, ringing for the rest of the night."

Marissa Bamboa was called before a conduct and competence committee hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in London for misconduct at the home, which is now closed, during a night shift on October 12 and 13, 2015.

She was found to have failed or failed to ensure a change of bedding of one resident, failed or failed to ensure the repositioning of another resident, incorrectly completed paper work and was dishonest when she wrote that a resident had refused to be turned.

The hearing heard that she decided not to change the sheets of a bed-ridden, doubly incontinent man and had not turned a diabetic woman who had both her legs amputated and was in danger of developing a pressure sore.

The panel decided to strike Ms Bamboa off and concluded: "Your misconduct as a whole was a serous departure from the standards expected of a registered nurse, and the you would have known that your actions could foreseeably result in harm to the residents in your care.

"Your behaviour amounted to a disregard for the dignity and a violation of the rights of the highly vulnerable residents in your care."

If you are a relative of a former patient of Avonmead and had concerns contact Joanne Moore on jmoore3@gazetteandherald.co.uk