Tory MPs to demand resignation of NHS chief over Mid Staffs scandal Around 20 MPs are expected to sign a Commons early day motion tabled by Charlotte Leslie, the Conservative MP Bristol North West, calling for "accountability" over the deaths at Stafford hospital in the last ten years. The intervention by Tory MPs comes after David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said he would stand by Sir David and warned that "we should not be seeking scapegoats" over what happened at Mid Staffs. Sir David was chief executive of the strategic health authority overseeing Mid Staffs in 2005. "There has been a thunderous silence around the NHS and Mid Staffs scandal, and relatives of those who died needlessly have been screaming into a vacuum for those in positions of authority who were responsible to be held to account," Mrs Leslie said. She also said that any former ministers and officials responsible for what happened at Stafford hospital should "face the consequences." She added: "Those involved must be held accountable for their actions and face the consequences. David Nicholson was then over-all in charge of Mid Staffs. In no other walk of life would a man who had overseen such a diabolical catastrophe keep his job. So why should he be immune from responsibility? If talk of accountability is to mean anything at all, he must surely resign.