Merry Christmas, NHS
(World News UK)

So, after five months of negotiating the sometimes baffling currents of the Twittersphere, I finally created a tweet that is circulating well beyond my `edutwitter´ circle, responding to a thread in which tweeters who would have died without the care provided by the NHS share their stories. This led to some further contemplation of the situation in which I was placed 31 years ago, and how it might have worked out differently in a nation that was not served by a free-at-source, comprehensive health service. In spring 1986, as a young mother with a two-year-old daughter, I was informed that rather than expecting one...