Online GP appointments for Poynton and north-east Cheshire. Manchester commuter hours — 6am to 10pm, seven days a week.
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
Poynton is the last of Cheshire before Greater Manchester begins — Hazel Grove and Bramhall are minutes away, and a large share of the town works in Manchester or Stockport rather than in Cheshire at all.
That produces a specific problem: your GP surgery is in one county, your job is in another, and the appointment offered is at eleven on a Tuesday.
A 20-minute consultation with a GMC-registered GP costs £40, available 6am to 10pm every day of the week, with prescriptions, sick notes and referral letters included in the price.
Stepping Hill Hospital at Stockport is the nearest acute site, only about four miles away and across the county boundary. Macclesfield District General, the Cheshire East hospital, is around eight miles south. Living in Cheshire while being nearest to a Greater Manchester hospital is the defining local quirk, and it does complicate referral routes.
The town grew on coal — the Poynton collieries closed in the 1930s — and is now firmly a commuter town, affluent and well kept, with the Middlewood Way and the Macclesfield Canal running through it as reminders of the industrial layer underneath.
Poynton is well connected by rail on the Manchester to Stoke line and sits on the A523, which is heavily used and heavily congested at peak times.
A commuting population working Manchester hours means daytime appointments are close to unusable for a large part of the town. Early and late slots are used far more heavily here than the average across our Cheshire coverage.
The demographic skews older and comfortable, which brings the usual long-term condition and menopause work, alongside a notable amount of cardiovascular risk assessment among people who feel entirely well and want to know where they stand.
Cross-boundary referral into Stockport versus Macclesfield is a practical issue worth getting right first time, and is one of the more useful things to sort out properly in a consultation with time in it.
Stepping Hill Hospital at Stockport is the nearest acute site, only about four miles away and across the county boundary. Macclesfield District General, the Cheshire East hospital, is around eight miles south.
For an emergency the boundary is irrelevant — 999, and 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. 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
Adlington, Higher Poynton, Disley, Prestbury, Bramhall fringe, Woodford, Pott Shrigley
Population served
To the NHS, sometimes. To us, not at all.
Stepping Hill is four miles away in Greater Manchester; Macclesfield is eight miles away in Cheshire East, and which one a referral goes to depends on the specialty and your GP practice rather than the map.
Tell us where you are registered at the start, and we will address the referral correctly rather than leaving you to untangle it later.
Randox Health Cheadle — one of the shorter journeys of anywhere we cover.
Vista Health's South East Manchester diagnostic centre at Crownpoint Shopping Park, Denton.
Ask about the NHS wait before paying, and about Right to Choose, which lets you select a different NHS provider at no cost.
Yes — Adlington, Higher Poynton, Disley, Prestbury, the Bramhall fringe, Woodford and Pott Shrigley.
Yes — 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. Poynton is a commuter village for Manchester and Stockport, and appointments either side of the working day are the ones that get used.
If you feel well and have no risk factors — probably not, and we will say so.
General screening in people without symptoms has not been shown to reduce death or serious illness, and a broad panel will flag something in most healthy people simply because of how reference ranges work.
Symptoms, a family history or a specific question are what make testing worthwhile.
Yes, and it is a common reason to book from this area.
Over 45 with typical symptoms, you do not need a blood test — the diagnosis is clinical, and HRT can be started without one. A normal FSH does not rule perimenopause out.
Yes — electronically, wherever you choose. You collect it yourself.
Examine you — no blood pressure, no chest, no internal examinations, no cervical screening.
And we never prescribe opioids or stimulants remotely, nor benzodiazepines or z-drugs for ongoing use.
Poynton 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.
Whether your NHS care sits in Cheshire East or Greater Manchester 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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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
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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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