MP signed off until 2018 after major surgery to remove infected cysts

AN MP has explained to her constituents how she will need to recuperate into the new year after undergoing major surgery.

Redcar’s Labour MP Anna Turley has had a series of operations to alleviate the symptoms of infected cysts after being rushed to hospital in June.

These were unsuccessful, so she had to have major surgery last week at St Thomas’s Hospital in London to fully remove the infected tissue.

She has also received treatment at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough previously. She said: “I have been signed off for physical recuperation until the new year.

“These are symptoms, problems and procedures thousands of women experience every year in the UK and I am grateful to all the staff at both St Thomas’s and James Cook for the care I’ve received.

“My office will, of course, still be functioning and available for individual constituents’ help, advice or general inquiries.”

The MP said she would be “paired” with an opposition MP so her absence from Parliament would not change the result of any vote. She reassured constituents she would keep abreast of local and national issues and said they could continue to contact her. She said: “I will be writing to Ministers, putting in questions to various Government departments and championing causes on your behalf, so do keep in touch as usual.”

Ms Turley was disappointed not to be at the Remembrance Sunday commemoration.