A Bradford nurse who mistakenly gave a baby a massive overdose of morphine has been struck off.

Eva Serenio, 51, was issued with a conditions of practice order in November 2006 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council after mistakenly giving a premature baby a day's worth of morphine in 11 minutes in 2004.

The conditions imposed on her in 2006 included a ban from working in neonatal care or paediatrics for a year and supervision at work, including addressing her deficiency' in the administration and checking of drugs.

She had admitted failing to perform an adequate checking procedure after she mistakenly administered morphine solution at Bradford Royal Infirmary to a baby on Sept-ember 20, 2004. The baby later died but a coroner ruled the morphine dose did not cause the death and he died from natural causes.

Philippines-trained Ms Serenio also admitted a second charge of failing to perform an adequate checking procedure on January 30, 2005 when handing over discharge medication of eye drops and folic acid to the family of a baby.

She was sacked by Bradford Teaching Hospitals after her second error was discovered.

In 2006 a conditions of practice order was imposed on the nurse for 12 months by the Nursing and Midwifery Council which included a ban on her working in the practice area of neonatal and paediatric care.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Conduct and Competence Committee met recently at the end of the 12 months to review the order and determine if Ms Serenio had sufficiently improved her skills in order to be restored to full practice.

The independent panel was presented with evidence that showed she had not complied with the order.

In order to ensure the continued protection of the public the panel decided she should be permanently removed from the NMC register.