Online GP appointments for Middlewich. A growing town with no railway station — remote consultation removes the journey entirely.
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
Middlewich sits where the Trent and Mersey meets the Shropshire Union, which made it a serious place in the canal age and leaves it slightly awkwardly connected in this one. It is one of the larger Cheshire towns without a railway station, and that shapes how people here get to healthcare more than anything else.
A 20-minute consultation with a GMC-registered GP costs £40, by video or telephone, from 6am to 10pm every day. Sick notes, prescriptions and referral letters are included.
For a town where every hospital trip means a car or a long bus, being seen without travelling at all is worth more than it would be somewhere better connected.
Leighton Hospital at Crewe is the acute site, around eight miles south and reachable in twenty minutes by car. Without one, it is a considerably longer proposition — the bus routes exist but are infrequent, and the absence of a station means there is no rail alternative at all.
Middlewich has grown substantially over the last two decades, with significant new housing on the edges of what was a compact salt town. That growth has arrived faster than local primary care capacity in places, which is a familiar Cheshire East pattern and a common reason people start looking privately.
The town retains a genuine industrial base — salt and chemicals historically, food production and distribution now — alongside a growing commuter population working in Crewe, Northwich and Manchester.
New-build estates on the town's edge have brought a younger family population, and with it the presentations that come with young children: rashes, fevers, ear infections and the endless question of whether something needs seeing today or can wait.
Commuting to Manchester or Crewe by car most days is its own health exposure — sedentary hours, poor sleep, meals eaten at the wheel. It tends to surface as fatigue or reflux rather than as anything that announces itself.
For an older population in the surrounding villages, the lack of a station makes routine follow-up genuinely difficult. Medication reviews and long-term condition checks are among the most useful things we do remotely here.
Leighton Hospital at Crewe is the acute site, around eight miles south and reachable in twenty minutes by car. That is genuinely close by mid Cheshire standards.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture go there or to 999, not to a remote consultation. The proximity is an argument for using it, not for booking us first.
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
Byley, Cledford, Sproston, Warmingham, Sandbach Heath, Croxton, Stanthorne
Population served
Randox Health Cheadle is the nearest partner clinic.
But Leighton is eight miles away, and if your NHS GP will do the same test free and locally, that is plainly the better answer. We will say so rather than take the fee.
Vista Health's MRI unit at Asda Wolstanton Retail Park, Stoke-on-Trent.
Ask about the NHS wait first, and about Right to Choose, which lets you select a different NHS provider at no cost.
Yes — Byley, Cledford, Sproston, Warmingham, Sandbach Heath, Croxton and Stanthorne.
Consultations are remote, so rural distance is not a barrier, which matters where bus provision to the outlying settlements is thin.
Time, and access outside working hours — not proximity.
Being eight miles from Leighton does not help if you cannot get an appointment, or if the appointment you can get is ten minutes long and you have a complicated question.
Where the free route would serve you better, we say so and lose the fee. That happens regularly.
Yes, and it is twenty minutes well spent if you take several long-term medicines.
Send your repeat prescription list in advance. Your NHS GP and your pharmacist can both do this free too, which is worth asking about.
Yes — 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. A good share of Middlewich commutes, and an appointment at either end of the day is often the only workable one.
Yes — electronically, to whichever you use. You collect it yourself.
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.
Middlewich 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, and will not imply one until there is one to quote.
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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