During the Second World War, she enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where she later served as the consultant to the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Albertine Louisa Winner, an only child, was born in Coulsdon, London to Isidore Wiener and Annie Stonex.

[3] In 1940, during the Second World War, she joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), where she was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

[3] Winner was the Assistant Medical Director-General and the chief woman doctor of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS).

[10] In the 1967 New Year Honours, Winner was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

[3][12] After retiring from the medical profession in 1967, Cicely Saunders asked for her financial assistance in establishing the first modern hospice.

Winner was initially apprehensive but soon saw its importance and helped establish St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, London, and she supervised its construction served as its deputy medical director when it opened in 1967.

She utilised her interest and experience treating neurological disorders to develop palliative treatment of motor neuron disease.