Online GP appointments for Holmes Chapel and the surrounding villages. Book before the commute or after it — 6am to 10pm, daily.
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
Holmes Chapel is a commuter village with a station, which is most of what defines it practically — a large proportion of the working population leaves it each morning for Manchester, Crewe or Stoke and returns in the evening.
That is precisely the pattern that makes getting a daytime GP appointment difficult. Appointments here run from 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, which means before the train or after it rather than instead of a day's work.
A 20-minute consultation with a GMC-registered GP costs £40, including any sick note, prescription or referral letter arising from it.
The village sits between three acute hospitals without being especially close to any: Leighton at Crewe around ten miles south, Macclesfield District General roughly twelve miles east, and the Manchester hospitals further north again. Which one you end up at depends more on the specialty than the distance.
Holmes Chapel is affluent and its health profile reflects that, but a rail-commuting population has a specific problem that money does not solve: the surgery's opening hours and the working day overlap almost exactly. People here do not generally struggle to afford care. They struggle to be in the county when it is available.
The surrounding parishes — Goostrey, Cranage, Twemlow, Allostock — are properly rural, with the transport limitations that go with it for anyone not driving.
Long-distance commuting shows up medically long before anyone connects it: disrupted sleep, sedentary hours, meals at odd times, and stress that gets normalised because everyone on the train is doing the same thing. It usually presents as fatigue, reflux or creeping weight rather than as a complaint about the commute.
Early-morning appointments are used more heavily here than almost anywhere else we cover, which is the clearest indicator of what the actual barrier has been.
In the rural parishes around the village, an older population and thin bus provision make remote review of long-term conditions and repeat medication genuinely valuable rather than merely convenient.
The village sits between three acute hospitals without being especially close to any — Leighton at Crewe around ten miles south, Macclesfield District General roughly twelve miles east, and the Manchester hospitals further north again.
Which one you end up at depends more on the specialty than the distance. For an emergency, that is not your problem: call 999 and let the ambulance service decide.
Bowel screening from 50, cervical screening from 25, breast screening from 50. All free, all invited automatically, and each does something no private blood panel can.
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
Cranage, Goostrey, Twemlow, Swettenham, Allostock, Lower Withington, Brereton Green
Population served
Randox Health Cheadle is the nearest partner clinic, or the Vista MRI unit at Wolstanton for scans.
Ask your NHS GP first — if the same test is free at your surgery, we will tell you to go there rather than take the fee.
Yes — and it is the specific reason most people here book.
Holmes Chapel is a rail-commuting village where the working day and the surgery's opening hours overlap almost exactly. Money is rarely the barrier; being in the county between nine and five is.
Appointments run 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, which is designed around precisely that problem.
Yes — Cranage, Goostrey, Twemlow, Swettenham, Allostock, Lower Withington and Brereton Green.
Consultations are remote, so village addresses make no difference at all to access or price.
Usually yes. Evening appointments run to 10pm, seven days a week, including weekends and bank holidays.
A consultation also works perfectly well from a train, provided you have somewhere private enough to speak freely — which is worth thinking about before booking a carriage appointment.
Yes — from the NHS App, another private provider, or a home testing kit.
Send them in advance with the reference ranges visible. It is frequently more useful, and always cheaper, than buying another panel.
Yes — electronically, to whichever pharmacy you use. You collect it; nothing is posted.
Where the free route would serve you better, we say so and lose the fee. A pharmacist, Talking Therapies or a free GP blood test will suit plenty of people better.
What £40 buys is twenty unhurried minutes at a time you can actually make.
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.
Holmes Chapel 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.
Which of the three local trusts treats you does not change who regulates us. The same standards apply across England.
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
Cost
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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