{"id":379991,"date":"2026-01-20T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379991\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:12:09","slug":"lorraine-corr-how-west-belfast-woman-went-from-carer-to-managing-director-of-connected-health-i-never-could-have-imagined-that-one-day-id-be-leading-this-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379991\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorraine Corr: How west Belfast\u00a0woman went from carer to managing director of Connected Health: \u2018I never could have imagined that one day I\u2019d be leading this company\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nLorraine Corr, head of Connected Health north of the border, talks to Margaret Canning about her journey in the firm and challenges in the sector\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lorraine Corr, managing director Northern Ireland of Connected Health. Friday, Jan 16, 2026.  Picture by Peter Morrison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bus tel page 7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lorraine Corr, managing director Northern Ireland of Connected Health. Friday, Jan 16, 2026.  Picture by Peter Morrison<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She has learned every part of the Connected Health business since joining in 2012. Now, Lorraine Corr has been appointed Northern Ireland managing director of the independent homecare provider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But Lorraine first joined as a frontline worker, hoping that doing part-time work as a carer in addition to her full-time job as a PA would give her extra money in the run-up to Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorraine Corr, head of Connected Health north of the border, talks to Margaret Canning about her journey in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1334,102,2960,1335,56,54,55,27741],"class_list":["post-379991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-belfast","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-margaret-canning","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-belfast-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}