A nurse struck off for administering an enema to a patient at a Keighley nursing home and kicking him when he protested, yesterday lost her bid to be allowed back on to the register.

Lillian Deakin, 42, told the professional conduct committee of the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting that she very much wanted to be able to nurse again.

Until recently she had felt that her offences had been so serious that "the door to nursing had been closed for me."

However, after talking to the Nurses Welfare Service and working to help deaf people at her local church she felt ready to apply for restoration.

She realised she would have to go on a "back to nursing course" and would also be glad to work as a care assistant to help her get used to working with patients again.

She had been promised a post on a back to nursing course if her application had been successful.

Mrs Deakin had been removed from the register after a hearing in April 1991 found her guilty on six charges of misconduct while she was employed as an enrolled nurse at the Norwood House Nursing Home in Keighley.

The incidents took place in March 1990 and concerned two incidents of administering an enema to a patient without warning, while he was asleep and without warming the enema to body temperature. During one of those occasions she had kicked the patient when he lashed out.

After consideration behind closed doors the committee decided to reject Mrs Deakin's application for restoration.

Committee chairman and council president Alison Norman, advised Mrs Deakin that it hoped that in any further application she would be able to demonstrate an ability to work within a formal health care setting, for example, as a care worker.

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