Online GP appointments for Buxton and the High Peak, where winter roads make travelling for care genuinely difficult.
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
Buxton is the highest market town in England, sitting at around a thousand feet in the High Peak. That is a pleasant fact in summer and a genuine healthcare problem in winter, when the roads out — the A6 and the Cat and Fiddle — are among the first in the region to close.
For a town whose acute hospital care is twenty miles away over exactly those roads, a consultation that happens at home is not a convenience. On the wrong February morning it is the only option available.
Twenty minutes with a GMC-registered GP costs £40, available 6am to 10pm, seven days a week.
Buxton has community health services at the Cavendish, but acute and emergency care means travelling — generally north-west to Stockport or east to Chesterfield, both around twenty miles over high ground. In good weather that is a manageable drive. In bad weather it is not, and public transport does not meaningfully improve the position.
The town sits in Derbyshire, which puts it in a different county and a different health system from the Cheshire towns it borders. Patients here are often surprised to find that services a short drive west are not routinely available to them.
Buxton's population is older than the national average, with a substantial retired community drawn by the spa town's character and the Peak District around it. Long-term condition management and medication review make up much of the routine demand.
The surrounding High Peak villages are properly isolated by English standards. Limited bus services, scattered settlements and hard winters combine to make any journey to an appointment a piece of planning rather than an errand.
Winter access is the theme that shapes everything else. Repeat prescriptions, long-term condition review and follow-up appointments should not depend on whether the A6 is open, and remotely they do not.
An older population brings medication review, blood pressure and cholesterol monitoring, and bone health assessment — the last particularly relevant where icy conditions and falls are a seasonal reality.
Outdoor activity is central to life here, with the Peak District on the doorstep, and musculoskeletal injuries from walking, climbing and cycling are a common reason to book.
Buxton has community health services at the Cavendish, but acute and emergency care means travelling — generally north-west to Stockport or east to Chesterfield, both around twenty miles over high ground.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture mean 999. Do not attempt to drive yourself over the tops in bad weather — call an ambulance and let them decide the route.
Buxton sits in a different county and a different health system from the Cheshire towns it borders, which means services a short drive west are not always available to you.
Ask specifically which trust your referral goes to, because assumptions based on distance are frequently wrong here.
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
Chapel-en-le-Frith, Whaley Bridge, Chinley, Tideswell, Bakewell, Dove Holes, Harpur Hill, Fairfield
Population served
Randox Health Cheadle is the nearest partner clinic, over the tops toward Stockport.
Ask your NHS GP first. If the same test can be done locally and free, that is plainly the better answer — and we will say so rather than send you over the A6 in January.
Vista Health's South East Manchester diagnostic centre at Crownpoint Shopping Park, Denton.
Check the NHS wait before paying, and ask about Right to Choose, which lets you select a different NHS provider at no cost.
Yes, and it is the practical reason a remote service is useful here.
Buxton is one of the highest towns in England, and roads over the tops close or become genuinely unpleasant several times most winters. An appointment that happens at your kitchen table does not care what the A537 is doing.
Which is also why it is worth being organised about repeat prescriptions before bad weather rather than during it.
Yes — Chapel-en-le-Frith, Whaley Bridge, Chinley, Tideswell, Bakewell, Dove Holes, Harpur Hill and Fairfield.
It matters to the NHS, not to us.
Referral pathways follow your GP practice rather than the shortest journey, which regularly surprises people here — services a few miles west may not be available to you.
We write to whichever service is correct for you, and it is worth telling us where you are registered at the start.
Yes, and it is twenty minutes well spent if you take several. Send your repeat list in advance.
Your NHS GP and pharmacist can both do this free, and we will point you there if it suits you better.
Yes — electronically, to whichever you use. You collect it; nothing is posted.
Examine you — no blood pressure, no chest, no joints, no internal examinations.
And we never prescribe opioids or stimulants remotely, nor benzodiazepines or z-drugs for ongoing use.
Buxton is in Derbyshire, 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.
Being in a different county from the rest of our Cheshire coverage changes your NHS pathways, not our regulation. The same standards apply across England.
Clinically reviewed by Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan, GMC 7563469
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026
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Yes, with your consent
Included
Yes, and told why
£40 for 20 minutes
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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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