She was chair of MIND for four years and one of the founders of the National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease, of which she was for a time vice-chair.
[2] She married Alec Bingley in 1948, and they bought a house Hoddensbury in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, which was her home to the end of her life.
[1][2] Bingley started work in 1945 as a medical social worker at St Bartholomew's Hospital, but gave up this career in 1948 when she married, resuming it when widowed 24 years later.
After her husband died suddenly in 1972, Bingley resumed work as a medical social worker, taking a part-time post at St Mark's Hospital, London.
She was appointed MBE in the 1991 New Year Honours, "For services to St. Mark's Hospital, City and Hackney Health Authority".