Online GP appointments for Runcorn and Halton, with early and late slots around shift work.
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
Runcorn is two towns in one — the old town by the river and the planned new town built around it in the 1960s and 70s — and the two have never quite behaved as a single place. Services, transport and health outcomes all differ across a distance you could walk.
What both halves share is a chemical industry heritage and a working population on shift patterns. Appointments here run from 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, which is the practical point.
£40 covers a 20-minute consultation with a GMC-registered GP, and blood testing is available in Liverpool, around thirteen miles away.
Runcorn sits in the borough of Halton, which is administratively Cheshire but functionally part of the Liverpool City Region. Halton General provides local hospital services, with acute and specialist care drawing toward Warrington and Liverpool depending on the pathway.
Halton has a health profile noticeably different from the rest of Cheshire. The borough carries the long tail of heavy industry — economically and, in places, in its health outcomes — and sits well below the county average on several measures. Anyone reading Cheshire-wide health statistics and assuming they describe Runcorn would be badly misled.
The chemical industry remains a significant employer alongside logistics and distribution, and continuous process working means a substantial share of the population is unavailable during standard surgery hours.
The new town's layout, built around a busway rather than conventional streets, means getting between neighbourhoods and services is less straightforward than the distances suggest — particularly for anyone without a car.
Occupational health and fitness-to-work assessments are common, as are sick notes for industrial and logistics employers with formal absence procedures.
Cardiovascular and metabolic risk assessment matters here more than in most of the county, and both are straightforward to arrange remotely with a blood panel and a proper risk calculation.
Shift-related sleep problems and the mood effects that follow them are frequently raised, and frequently dismissed by patients themselves as simply part of the job.
Halton has a health profile well below the Cheshire average and incomes to match. We are not going to pretend £40 is nothing.
Halton General provides local hospital services, with acute and emergency care drawing toward Warrington and Liverpool depending on the pathway.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture go to A&E or 999. Never through us — we would tell you to hang up and call 999.
Bowel screening from 50. A kit through the post, minutes to complete, and one of the very few screening tests proven to save lives. Return rates are lowest in exactly the areas where bowel cancer outcomes are worst, which makes it the single highest-value free thing on this page.
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
Halton Village, Weston, Sandymoor, Preston Brook, Daresbury, Moore, Frodsham, Helsby
Population served
Randox Health Liverpool — around thirteen miles.
Ask your NHS GP first. If the same test can be done free at your surgery, that is plainly the better answer and we will say so rather than take the fee.
Vista Health's Liverpool City Centre diagnostic centre on Duke Street, in the Ropewalks.
Check the NHS wait before paying, and ask about Right to Choose — a different NHS provider with a shorter wait, at no cost to you.
Yes — appointments run 6am to 10pm, seven days a week.
Process industry and logistics shifts do not fit an 8am telephone queue, and for a lot of people here that is the actual barrier rather than the money.
Often not, and we will tell you when.
Where it is not: a pharmacist can treat it today for nothing, Talking Therapies would serve you better, or your GP will do the same test free.
Where it is: you need something now, waiting costs you a shift, or something has been rushed before and needs twenty minutes.
Yes where clinically justified, and a private fit note is valid.
You do not need one for the first seven days — self-certification covers that period, and paying inside it is wasted money.
Yes — Halton Village, Weston, Sandymoor, Preston Brook, Daresbury, Moore, Frodsham and Helsby.
Yes — electronically, to whichever you use. You collect it; nothing is posted.
Several things are cheaper over the counter than a prescription charge, and we will tell you when.
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.
Runcorn 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 we do not have.
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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