Then
Twenty-five years ago, my colleague Agnes Allan (Senior Logistics Officer), worked at Heath Education Board Scotland (HEBS) and had just turned 45.
The publishing team, were all based in one large room within our previous Woodburn House offices in Edinburgh.
Everyone had their own (albeit sizeable) desktop PC, there was a lightbox for images and big flat plan drawers to store all the artwork.
The kinds of publications they were working on were campaign materials for stopping smoking, cutting back on your drinking, improving your diet and being more physically active.
These campaigns mostly encouraged individuals to take responsibility for their own health behaviours.
The materials also included informed consent materials to support screening and immunisation programmes of work, such as measles.
Agnes discovered that none of the staff working in patient information, across the then 15 territorial health boards, knew each other and there was a lot of duplication of information across the system.