BEREAVED families are calling for hospital bosses to resign after a damning report was published into Tameside General.

More than 160 people have now joined Tameside Hospital Action Group with complaints about elderly patients being left unwashed, unfed and uncared for.

Now, despite an independent report which heavily criticises the hospital, THAG members say it is still not good enough.

Chairman of the group Peter Tracy, whose dad Gerard died at the hospital last year, said: "It goes on about what is happening in the future but for us it is also about what happened in the past. Why is no one being brought to book for it?

"What about all the people that are left behind, who keep ringing, emailing and writing to me with all this pent-up grief they can't get rid of?

"All they want are answers and the hospital can't give them.

"There is nothing in the report that goes back to what has happened in the past, it's been completely swept under the carpet."

Peter also claims standards of care have not improved and is calling for hospital bosses - chief executive Christine Green and director of nursing Philip Dylak - to hand in their resignations.

"It's still happening now - we are getting letters in from February. It's still happening and therefore Christine Green is not doing her job properly.

"If I don't do my job properly at work, it's goodbye. Why is this any different?"

He added: "There has to be a public inquiry to find out what went on. We were hoping they would come out and say there would be one, that's not going to happen so we will continue our campaign.

"We are here to stay and we are not going away until we have got something more than this."

Ashton MP David Heyes, who has been closely involved with the group since its start, has pledged his continued support.