Dounby Surgery

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Bob Hazlehurst has been a principal in Dounby since 1st Jan 1979. Prior to that he was an assistant on the island of Flotta and a trainee in Stromness

Bob qualified M.B. Ch.B. at Liverpool University Medical School in 1973, did house jobs in Derby and Harare (Zimbabwe), returning to the Midlands to spend 2 years doing Orthopaedics, A+E and Surgery, before moving up north to Orkney in 1976.

In addition to his GP work, Bob is Lead Clinician for the rehab service at the Balfour Hospital as well as leading the Orkney Stroke Managed Clinical Network.

He developed an interest in computers in the early 80s, buying an Acorn Electron, to tinker with BBC Basic, before moving on to increasingly powerful DOS, UNIX and WINDOWS machines. The first Practice computer was bought in 1984, running the ABIES clinical system on an Apricot F10. Because of the innovative design of the Apricot, with its Infrared Mouse and the cramped location, he and the rest of the team learned to use the mouse left handed, an ideosynchrasy that has persisted to this day.