Online GP appointments for Sandbach and the surrounding villages. Twenty unhurried minutes, evenings and weekends included.
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
Sandbach is a market town that has kept its market — the cobbled square and the Saxon crosses are still the centre of it, and the Thursday market still runs. It is comfortable, well connected by the M6 and the Crewe to Manchester line, and generally well provided for.
What it is not immune to is the thing driving people private everywhere in Cheshire East: the gap between needing an appointment and getting one.
A 20-minute consultation with a GMC-registered GP costs £40. Appointments run 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, and prescriptions, sick notes and referral letters are included in the fee.
Leighton Hospital is close by Cheshire standards — around five miles to Crewe, which for once makes the acute site genuinely accessible. Sandbach station sits on the Crewe to Manchester line, and junction 17 of the M6 is on the edge of town.
Sandbach is among the more affluent parts of Cheshire East, and that shows in the health profile: life expectancy above the national average, lower rates of most deprivation-linked conditions. It does not translate into shorter waits. Demand for appointments in this part of the county is high precisely because the population is older and better at seeking care.
The town's industrial history is in trucks rather than salt — Foden and ERF were built here, and the loss of that manufacturing base still registers locally even though the town itself has done well since.
An older-than-average population means long-term condition management dominates: blood pressure, cholesterol, thyroid, and the medication reviews that should accompany them but frequently do not. A twenty-minute appointment is enough to go through a repeat list properly, which a ten-minute one is not.
Menopause and perimenopause come up often in this demographic, and are among the things most likely to have been dismissed elsewhere before someone books privately.
The surrounding villages — Brereton, Smallwood, Hassall Green — are rural enough that transport is a real factor for anyone who has stopped driving, and remote follow-up removes a genuine barrier rather than simply saving time.
Leighton Hospital is close by Cheshire standards — around five miles to Crewe, which for once makes the acute site genuinely accessible.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture go there or to 999, not to a remote consultation. Being that close is an argument for using it directly.
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
Elworth, Wheelock, Ettiley Heath, Arclid, Brereton, Smallwood, Hassall Green, Betchton
Population served
Randox Health Cheadle is the nearest partner clinic.
But Leighton is five miles away. If your NHS GP will do the same test free and locally, that is plainly the better answer and 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.
Proximity is not the same as access, and we would rather be straight about that.
What £40 buys is twenty unhurried minutes, at a time that suits you — 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. It does not buy better medicine, and it does not buy anything the NHS would do for free.
Where the free route serves you better, we say so.
Yes — Elworth, Wheelock, Ettiley Heath, Arclid, Brereton, Smallwood, Hassall Green and Betchton.
Yes — 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. Sandbach sits on the West Coast Main Line and the M6, and a large share of the town works elsewhere.
Yes, and it is twenty minutes well spent if you take several. Send your repeat prescription list in advance.
Your NHS GP and pharmacist can both do this free, and we will point you there if it suits you better.
Yes, and it is a common reason to book from this area.
Worth knowing before you pay: over 45 with typical symptoms, you do not need a blood test — UK guidance is explicit that the diagnosis is clinical, and HRT can be started without one.
NHS GPs prescribe HRT, and the prepayment certificate keeps the cost low. What we sell is twenty minutes, not a better prescription.
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.
Sandbach 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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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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