A nurse has been struck off for saying a care home resident who choked on a sandwich had died in her sleep.

Neil Wright was struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for giving an inaccurate of a resident’s death during her employment at Priory Care’s Abbey Court care home in Lincolnshire.

The court heard that Wright had telephoned the daughter-in-law of the resident and told her that she had passed away in her sleep on the night of 28 September 2016.

However, documentation from the home revealed the resident had choked while being fed a sandwich by a care assistant.

Having failed to remove the blockage with the support of other care workers, Wright called 999.

Further attempts to remove the blockage were unsuccessful with CPR not administered as the resident had a ‘do not attempt resuscitate’ in place.

The coroner’s report gave the cause of death as choking and dementia, commenting: “there are a number of factors which contributed to her death of which the following are likely: – inadequacy of training, – inadequacy of record keeping and – general practices, processes and procedures not being robust enough”.

A spokesperson for Priory Adult Care said: “We expect all our nursing staff and other colleagues to uphold the highest standards of care, in the interests of those we have the privilege to look after. We have robust internal disciplinary measures and work closely with regulatory bodies, including the NMC, to take action where appropriate. We cannot comment further on individual cases.”