Lord Mackinlay says prosthetics currently on offer could leave people “feeling in a pit of despair”.
Former MP Craig Mackinlay, who lost his hands and feet after a life-threatening episode of sepsis, has urged the government to end what he says is a "postcode lottery" for amputee care.
The former MP for South Thanet warned that NHS prosthetics currently on offer could leave people “in a pit of despair” while the ones he paid for privately made him "feel whole again”.The newly-appointed peer, who will be sworn into the Lords in October, said: “We need to do better. It’s 2024. In a direct message for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Lord Mackinlay said: “if you are going to keep people alive at great expense, then please spend that final bit of money to make whatever life you have after worth living.”Lord Mackinlay spoke of the challenges he has faced in his rehabilitation, telling the BBC he had “struggled to get doors open, get my seatbelt on, or even get my train ticket from my pocket”.
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