“We [MPs] in all probability spend an excessive amount of time in Westminster, away from our households, chasing this, that and the opposite.
“You now realise the vital issues are household, pals, youngsters.”
Mr Mackinlay mentioned when he returned to work he would marketing campaign to ensure “the well being service recognises sepsis on the earliest alternative”.
He mentioned: “It might have performed nothing for me, mine was uncommon.
“However for many individuals, there ought to be a recognition that you have one thing severely unsuitable.
“A broad spectrum of antibiotics may cease you from shedding limbs.”
An NHS spokesperson mentioned it offered a “complete bundle” of care and help for individuals who have misplaced limbs, together with a spread of prosthetics.
“However there may be extra to do,” the spokesperson mentioned.
“All trusts ought to guarantee sufferers are appropriately screened and obtain antibiotics inside an hour of a analysis of sepsis, and whereas delays linked to severe hurt are comparatively uncommon, trusts are required to have complete plans for the way they may reply to and study from affected person security incidents.”
Earlier than coming into Parliament, Mr Mackinlay labored as a chartered accountant. Initially a member of the pro-Brexit UK Independence Social gathering, he was elected as a Conservative MP for South Thanet in 2015.
Regardless of what he has gone by way of, Mr Mackinlay stills plans to combat the following election in his Kent constituency, resulting from be renamed Thanet East.
He additionally says he needs to turn into the “bionic MP”.
“When youngsters come to Parliament’s incredible training centre I would like them to be pulling their mother and father’ jacket or skirts or their trainer and saying: ‘I need to see the bionic MP immediately’.”