\n Emily Wood, sales director at Newsquest, presenting Colleen Spencer with her award alongside host Leanne Campbell (Image: Dave Gillespie)\n<\/p>\n
\n Colleen has worked for the NHS for more than 20 years.\n<\/p>\n
\n She is also a carer, after her husband had a bleed on the brain.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cColleen never truly stops when it comes to looking after someone,\u201d reads a nomination.\n<\/p>\n
\n The dedicated healthcare professional also helps to run a club at a local church, which gives the older generation the chance to meet up and have a warm meal cooked for them while they socialise.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere are several occasions where Colleen has finished working a night shift, gone home for a few hours, and then is straight back at the club being a great host,\u201d the nomination reads.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf she did not continue to go the club, unfortunately this would be stopped as no one else is available to man the operation of the club.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe puts her heart and soul into everything she does for others.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Speaking after her win, Colleen said: \u201cI’m so pleased to get this award for the NHS.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’ve worked really hard for the NHS for so many years, and also caring for my husband.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colleen Spencer is the very worthy winner of our Health Hero Award 2026. The 11th annual Warrington Guardian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-553034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553034","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=553034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}