A CARE home nurse who told an elderly woman, “If this was outside I would have strangled you," after being racially abused has been struck off.

The incident happened while Ashok Domah was employed by healthcare provider Four Seasons as a bank nurse at a home in East Dunbartonshire.

An inquiry by the Nursing and Midwifery Council was told by a witness that the nurse made the comment after being called a “black b******” by a female resident who had soiled herself.

The incident happened while he was attending to her personal care.

A witness told the inquiry that the nurse replied: "If this was outside I would have strangled you, you are a Roman Catholic and are so racist."

The nurse admitted he had verbally abused the woman to care home bosses and he was dismissed.

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A charge that the nurse worked shifts at the home while on sick leave from another job as a staff nurse with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde was also found proved.

The incidents took place between September 2011 and July 12 2012.

In a separate case a care home nurse who waited almost four hours to call a doctor for an elderly man who had suffered a stroke was struck off the register.

An inquiry heard that the family of the pensioner raised concerns about his condition, shortly after 11am.

But it was 4.20pm before the OAP was taken to hospital despite obvious signs that he was seriously ill.

An inquiry by the Nursing and Midwifery Council found that Fiona Snedden did not carry out “adequate” observations when she found him difficult to rouse.

She did not seek prompt medical attention for the pensioner when he became unwell.

A doctor was called at 2.50pm after a registered nurse, who wasn’t on duty, noticed the pensioner’s condition and suspected he had suffered a stroke.

The incident happened at Golfhill Care Home in Glasgow, run by Bupa, on March 15 2012.

A hearing by the NMC made clear that Ms Sneddon had engaged with the inquiry and had accepted that she would not be able to cope with the demands of returning to nursing.

The panel concluded that a striking off order was the only sanction appropriate to “adequately protect the public.”