The following number of practices were closed to new patient registrations in each NHS board: Board/Year Ayrshire and Arran, Borders, Fife, Forth Valley, Grampian, Highland, Lothian, Shetland, and Western Isles Greater Glasgow and Clyde Lanarkshire Orkney Tayside 1999 0 Not held 0 0 0 2000 0 Not held 0 0 0 2001 0 Not held 0 0 0 2002 0 Not held 0 0 0 2003 0 Not held 0 0 0 2004 0 1 0 0 0 2005 0 2 0 0 0 2006 0 4 0 0 0 2007 0 6 0 0 0 2008 0 5 0 0 0 2009 0 5 0 0 0 2010 0 3 0 0 0 2011 0 1 0 1 0 2012 0 1 1 1 0 2013 0 3 1 0 0 2014 0 3 1 0 0 2015 0 2 3 0 4 2016 0 8 5 0 10 2017 0 3 4 0 4 Circumstances will arise where a practice experiences capacity issues and is unable to routinely accept new patients onto its list.