Online GP appointments for Knutsford, with blood testing ten minutes away at Cheadle.
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
Knutsford is small, well-connected and unusually well served by the things that make remote healthcare work. Cheadle is around ten miles for blood testing, Manchester Airport is fifteen minutes away, and the M6 puts most of the North West within reach.
What the town does not have is an acute hospital. Care is split between Macclesfield and the Manchester hospitals depending on the service, which for a population accustomed to convenience is often the first surprise of a health problem.
A 20-minute consultation with a GMC-registered GP costs £40, available 6am to 10pm, seven days a week.
Knutsford's residents are generally directed north into Greater Manchester for specialist care, with Macclesfield covering some services. Like Wilmslow, it is a Cheshire town whose healthcare gravity pulls out of the county.
This is an affluent, professional town with high existing use of private healthcare. Most households here already pay for something — dentistry, physiotherapy, optical care, specialist consultations — and a private GP appointment is a familiar rather than an unusual decision.
A large share of the working population commutes into Manchester or travels regularly for business. That produces a specific pattern of demand: appointments outside working hours, comfort with video consultation, and a need for documentation at short notice before travel.
Knutsford also has a substantial older population, many of whom moved to the area on retirement. That combination — affluent, older, health-literate — tends to produce demand for screening and preventive assessment rather than only for acute problems.
Preventive health screening is a common reason to book here — comprehensive blood panels, cardiovascular risk assessment, and bone density scanning around menopause.
Travel health features strongly given the airport, particularly antimalarial prescriptions and letters confirming prescribed medication for border control.
Menopause and hormone health are frequently raised, often by women who have already tried to get an unhurried conversation elsewhere and found ten minutes insufficient for the subject.
Knutsford is an area where paying is the default. That makes it worth naming what does not need paying for.
Knutsford's residents are generally directed north into Greater Manchester for specialist care, with Macclesfield covering some services.
For an emergency, that routing is irrelevant — 999 or the nearest A&E. Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture never belong in a remote consultation.
Bowel screening from 50, cervical screening from 25, breast screening from 50. Free, evidence-based, and each does something no broad 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
Mobberley, Plumley, Tabley, High Legh, Allostock, Lower Peover, Chelford
Population served
Randox Health Cheadle — around ten miles, and straightforward from Knutsford.
Vista Health's South East Manchester diagnostic centre at Crownpoint Shopping Park, Denton.
Ask about the NHS wait before booking privately, and about Right to Choose — a different NHS provider with a shorter wait, at no cost. It is under-claimed here precisely because paying is the habit.
If you feel well and have no risk factors — probably not, and we will say so.
General health screening in people without symptoms has not been shown to reduce death or serious illness, and a large panel reliably throws up borderline results that lead to more tests.
Where testing genuinely earns its place is with symptoms, a family history or a specific question.
Yes — that is much of why people here book. Appointments run 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, and a video consultation works from a hotel or an airport lounge.
Manchester Airport is fifteen minutes away, which also makes travel health advice and medication letters common requests from this area.
Yes — Mobberley, Plumley, Tabley, High Legh, Allostock, Lower Peover and Chelford.
Not for ongoing use, and never started at a remote consultation. Opioids and stimulants we do not prescribe remotely at all.
For persistent insomnia the effective treatment is CBT for insomnia rather than medication, and it is available free. That is a more useful answer than a prescription, even if it is not the one people hope for.
Yes — electronically, wherever you choose. You collect it yourself.
Examine you. No blood pressure, no examinations of any kind, no cervical screening.
No — we are entirely remote, with no premises anywhere. That is a large part of why the fee is £40.
Knutsford 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.
We quote no inspection rating. Where a private provider does quote one, it is worth checking which service it actually covers.
Clinically reviewed by Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan, GMC 7563469
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026
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Ongoing
Time to be seen
Appointment length
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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