Online GP appointments across Salford, from MediaCity to Little Hulton, with city-centre blood testing.
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
Salford has changed faster than almost anywhere in the North West, and unevenly. MediaCity and the quays brought a young professional population into a city where long-established communities a few miles away have seen far less benefit.
The result is two quite different sets of healthcare needs sitting inside one city boundary. What both share is a shortage of appointments that fit around a working day.
A 20-minute consultation with a GMC-registered GP costs £40, available 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. Blood testing is on Market Street, a few minutes across the city boundary.
Salford Royal has a national reputation, particularly for neurosciences and for its work on patient safety, and draws referrals from well beyond the city. As in Manchester, that produces a striking contrast: specialist care of genuine excellence alongside primary care working under sustained pressure.
Salford's health inequality is among the starkest in England. Life expectancy differs substantially between the regenerated waterfront and neighbourhoods only a short distance inland, and city-level averages sit awkwardly between the two without describing either.
The media and creative sector at MediaCity has brought in a large freelance and contract workforce. Freelancers have a particular relationship with illness — no sick pay, no occupational health, and a strong incentive to keep working — which tends to mean problems are presented late and documentation is needed quickly.
The University of Salford adds a substantial student population, most registered locally only for the duration of a course.
Freelance and contract workers frequently need documentation at short notice — sick notes for clients or insurers, and fitness-to-work letters where there is no HR department to arrange them.
Mental health and stress are common presenting concerns in a workforce with irregular income and little job security, and 20 minutes is enough time to get past the first answer.
Cardiovascular and metabolic screening is high value in the parts of the city where risk factors cluster, and a blood panel with a proper risk score is more useful than treating each number in isolation.
Salford Royal is the acute site, with a national reputation in neurosciences alongside its emergency department.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture go there or to 999, not to a remote consultation.
Bowel screening from 50 — a kit through the post, minutes to complete, and one of the few screening tests with proven mortality benefit. Return rates are lowest in the places where outcomes are worst, which makes it the highest-value free thing here.
Cervical screening from 25 and breast screening from 50 are free and each does something no 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
Eccles, Swinton, Worsley, Walkden, Irlam, Little Hulton, Pendlebury, Ordsall, MediaCity
Population served
Randox Health at Holland & Barrett in Manchester — straightforward from anywhere in Salford.
Ask your NHS GP first. Where the same test is free at your surgery, that is the better route and we will say so.
Vista Health's Salford diagnostic centre at West One Retail Park, Eccles — which is the closest imaging centre to most of the city.
Ask about the NHS wait before paying, and about Right to Choose, which lets you select a different NHS provider at no cost.
Yes — and it is a common situation in Salford, where a lot of housing turns over quickly.
Worth knowing: you can register with a GP without proof of address or immigration status, and practices are not permitted to refuse you for lacking documents. It is free, and it is the better long-term answer than paying each time.
Yes — 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. Between logistics along the ship canal corridor and the media and creative sector at MediaCity, a lot of Salford does not work nine to five.
Often not — and we will say which.
A pharmacist treating you free today beats paying us. So does a free GP blood test, and so does Talking Therapies for anxiety or low mood.
What the fee buys is speed and twenty unhurried minutes, not better medicine.
Yes — Eccles, Swinton, Worsley, Walkden, Irlam, Little Hulton, Pendlebury, Ordsall and MediaCity.
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.
Salford 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.
Your immigration status has no bearing on your right to care, and it is not something we report on.
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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