Table 2.

Practice characteristics in December 2013 (n=732)

Characteristic	Summary statistic
Number of GPs
≤5 general practitioners	447 (61.1%)
>5–≤10 general practitioners	246 (33.6%)
>10 general practitioners	39 (5.3%)
Practice size
≤5000 patients	345 (47.1%)
>5000–≤10 000 patients	305 (41.7%)
>10 000 patients	82 (11.2%)
Dispensing practice	67 (9.2%)
Health board
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	37 (5.1%)
NHS Borders	20 (2.7%)
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	26 (3.6%)
NHS Fife	40 (5.5%)
NHS Forth Valley	44 (6.0%)
NHS Grampian	37 (5.1%)
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	215 (29.4%)
NHS Highland	72 (9.8%)
NHS Lanarkshire	60 (8.2%)
NHS Lothian	107 (14.6%)
NHS Orkney	3 (0.4%)
NHS Shetland	4 (0.5%)
NHS Tayside	60 (8.2%)
NHS Western Isles	7 (1.0%)
Modal SIMD quintile of patients
Quintile 1 (most deprived)	224 (30.6%)
Quintile 2	127 (17.3%)
Quintile 3	155 (21.2%)
Quintile 4	108 (14.8%)
Quintile 5 (least deprived)	118 (16.1%)
Modal location of patients
Large urban areas	302 (41.3%)
Other urban areas	192 (26.2%)
Accessible small towns	64 (8.7%)
Remote small towns	17 (2.3%)
Very remote small towns	9 (1.2%)
Accessible rural	61 (8.3%)
Remote rural	32 (4.4%)
Very remote rural	55 (7.5%)

GP, general practitioner; NHS, National Health Service; SIMD, Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.¹⁹