Online GP appointments for Blackburn, natively in Urdu and Punjabi with no interpreter needed.
Video and phone appointments, so no travel and no waiting room
Same-day appointments usually available, 6am to 10pm, seven days
£40 for 20 minutes, with no membership required
Prescriptions sent electronically to a pharmacy near you
Care led personally by Dr Khan
Attentive, unhurried care that listens properly
Five-star Google reviews from the people we have looked after
Registered with the Care Quality Commission
Blackburn with Darwen has one of the highest proportions of South Asian residents of any local authority in England. For a substantial part of this town, English is a second language — and a medical consultation is precisely the situation where a second language is least adequate.
Dr Khan consults natively in Urdu and Punjabi. Not through an interpreter, not through a relative, and not through an app — directly, in the language you think in.
Twenty minutes costs £40, available 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. For other languages, including Gujarati, a professional medical interpreting service is used.
Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital serves the borough and a wide east Lancashire catchment, with specialist services drawing toward Preston and Manchester.
Blackburn with Darwen is among the most deprived local authorities in England, and its health outcomes reflect that consistently. Life expectancy sits well below the national average, and the burden of long-term conditions is correspondingly higher and appears earlier in life.
The borough's demographic profile is unusual on two counts. It is significantly younger than the national average, and it has one of the largest proportional South Asian populations in the country — predominantly of Indian Gujarati and Pakistani heritage, established across several generations.
Those two facts together produce a specific pattern. Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease are more prevalent, develop earlier, and do so at lower body weight than standard screening thresholds assume. A person can meet no conventional risk criterion and still be at genuine risk.
Language provision across the borough varies, and a great deal of primary care is still conducted through family members acting as interpreters. That is workable for minor illness and inadequate for anything sensitive, anything complex, or anything involving a woman's health being explained by her son.
Consultation in a first language is the single most valuable thing we offer here, and it is not a convenience — it changes what gets said. Symptoms are described more accurately, medication instructions land properly, and sensitive subjects actually get raised.
Diabetes screening deserves to start earlier and at lower thresholds. HbA1c catches prediabetes, which is the stage at which the condition is still genuinely reversible.
Cardiovascular risk assessment is high value for the same reasons, and a full lipid profile with a formal risk score gives something specific to act on.
Women's health is an area where a private, confidential consultation — with no waiting room, no local visibility, and no relative interpreting — removes several real barriers at once.
Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital holds the emergency department for Blackburn, Darwen and much of east Lancashire.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture go there or to 999, never through a remote consultation.
Bowel screening from 50. A kit through the post, minutes to complete, and one of the few screening tests proven to save lives — returned least often in exactly the areas where outcomes are worst.
Cervical screening from 25 and breast screening from 50 are equally free. Uptake among South Asian women is lower than average nationally, and that gap is worth closing rather than accepting.
If a consultation needs a blood test or a scan, we request it electronically and you attend a partner clinic nearby. Results come back to Dr Khan, who explains them to you.
Nearest blood-test clinic
Address
Nearest imaging centre
Darwen, Accrington, Great Harwood, Rishton, Oswaldtwistle, Clitheroe, Whalley, Burnley
Population served
Yes — interpreting can be arranged in a wide range of languages, including Gujarati, Urdu and Punjabi. Ask when booking so it can be confirmed beforehand.
It matters. Medication instructions and safety-netting advice depend on precision an informal interpretation loses, and a family member translating is not the same thing — particularly for anything a patient would rather not say in front of their children.
If you are of South Asian heritage, yes — it is worth asking about.
Type 2 diabetes develops earlier and at lower BMI thresholds in South Asian populations than standard guidance assumes, and an HbA1c catches the reversible prediabetic stage.
Your NHS GP will do it free, and the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme that follows is also free.
Deficiency is genuinely common here, particularly in people with darker skin and anyone who covers up outdoors.
But for most people, simply taking a daily supplement is cheaper and simpler than paying to measure it first — and free supplements are available for some groups. We will say so rather than sell a test.
Randox Health at Holland & Barrett in Preston is the nearest partner clinic.
Ask your NHS GP first — if the same test is free at your surgery, that is the better answer.
Vista Health at The Croft Shifa Health Centre, Belfield Road, Rochdale.
Check the NHS wait before paying, and ask about Right to Choose — a different NHS provider with a shorter wait, at no cost.
Often not, and we will tell you when. A pharmacist treating you free today, a free GP blood test, or Talking Therapies will serve many people better.
What £40 buys is speed and twenty unhurried minutes.
Yes — Darwen, Accrington, Great Harwood, Rishton, Oswaldtwistle, Clitheroe, Whalley and Burnley.
Examine you — no blood pressure, no chest, no internal examinations.
And we never prescribe opioids or stimulants remotely, nor benzodiazepines or z-drugs for ongoing use.
Blackburn is in England, so our service is regulated by the Care Quality Commission, the independent regulator of health and social care in England.
CQC Provider ID: [TO BE ADDED BEFORE PUBLICATION]
Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan is on the GMC register, number 7563469, verifiable on the GMC's public register.
Your immigration status has no bearing on your right to care, and it is not something we report on.
Clinically reviewed by Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan, GMC 7563469
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026
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Your NHS record in the room
Written treatment plan
Told when a test isn’t needed
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Same day, usually
20 minutes
Yes, with your consent
Included
Yes, and told why
£40 for 20 minutes
Varies by practice
Typically 10 minutes
Yes, your full record
Not routinely
Usually
Free
Same day
Often 10 to 15 minutes
Usually not
Sometimes charged
Varies by provider
Often a subscription
Same-day access is usually available, from 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. You choose a time that suits you rather than waiting on hold at 8am.
Yes. Care is led personally by Dr Mohammad Khan, so you are not passed between clinicians. Continuity is the point of a small practice: someone who knows your history and is listening attentively rather than working through a checklist.
Yes, with your consent. We can access your Summary Care Record during the consultation, so your current medications, allergies and significant history are in the room. That means fewer questions you have already answered elsewhere, and safer prescribing.
No. We are not here to replace GPs, only to support them. Your NHS practice remains responsible for your ongoing care, and with your consent we write to them after the consultation. We are useful when you need to be seen sooner, or want more time than a standard appointment allows.
Twenty unhurried minutes and a comprehensive assessment. A written treatment plan is included, along with any prescription, sick note or referral letter arising from the consultation, at no extra charge.
£40 for 20 minutes, self-pay. Membership is optional and never required. Priced for fairness, because we are not here to charge extortionate amounts for access to a doctor.
It means the diagnosis can usually be made from your history and photographs, and that treatment can be arranged safely without examining you. Where a condition is not marked treatable online, it is because examination is the diagnosis — listening to a chest, feeling an abdomen, examining an ear or a joint — or because a procedure or device is needed.
Yes, where there is a genuine bacterial infection — cellulitis, impetigo, bacterial urine infections, confirmed strep throat. We will also frequently tell you that you do not need one. Most sore throats, coughs, colds and earaches are viral, and an antibiotic gives you the side effects with none of the benefit.
If your problem turns out to be genuinely outside what we can do remotely, the doctor will tell you straight away, point you to the right service, and refund your fee in full. We would rather do that than fill twenty minutes to justify the charge.
Call 999 or go to A&E — do not book an online appointment and do not wait for a reply to an email. For urgent problems that are not emergencies, NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, online or by phone, and can direct you to the right service.
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