Online GP appointments for Southport and the surrounding coast, with no journey required.
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
Southport sits at the end of the line in more than one sense. It is a coastal town with a single road and rail route in, and a population significantly older than the national average — a combination that makes travelling for healthcare harder than in almost anywhere else we cover.
A consultation that happens at home removes the journey entirely. Twenty minutes with a GMC-registered GP costs £40, available 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, by secure video or telephone.
Where a blood test is needed, Liverpool is around eighteen miles down the coast, though a referral can go to whichever provider is easiest for you.
Southport and Formby District General serves the town, with specialist services drawing toward Liverpool and, for some pathways, into Lancashire. The town's position on the coast means its catchment is effectively a half-circle — there is no population to the west.
The demographic picture is the defining factor here. Southport has one of the older age profiles in the North West, built up over decades as a retirement destination, and that shapes almost everything about local demand. Long-term condition management, polypharmacy review, falls risk and frailty are the everyday business of primary care in this town.
Older patients are also the group for whom travel is hardest and for whom a missed appointment costs most. Someone managing four conditions and eight medications needs continuity and time, and a ten-minute slot delivers neither.
The town's seasonal tourism economy adds a second layer, with a working population in hospitality and retail whose hours rarely align with a surgery's.
Medication review is a recurring need. Patients taking several long-term medicines often have not had anyone go through the whole list in years, and twenty minutes is enough time to do it properly.
Long-term condition monitoring — blood pressure, cholesterol, thyroid, kidney function and diabetes — makes up much of the routine demand, and most of it can be managed remotely with a blood panel.
Bone health matters in an older coastal population. Vitamin D deficiency is common, and DEXA scanning is worth considering after any fracture from a minor fall.
Southport and Formby District General serves the town, with specialist services drawing toward Liverpool and, for some pathways, into Lancashire.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness, a fall with a suspected fracture, or new confusion in an older person go there or to 999 — not to a remote consultation.
Bowel screening from 50, cervical screening from 25, breast screening from 50 — and self-referral for breast screening after 71, which a great many people do not realise continues to be available.
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
Birkdale, Ainsdale, Formby, Churchtown, Crossens, Banks, Hesketh Bank, Tarleton
Population served
Randox Health Liverpool — around eighteen miles down the coast, though a referral can go to whichever provider is easiest for you.
And ask your NHS GP first. If the same test is free locally, that is plainly the better answer and we will say so rather than send you on a journey.
Vista Health's Liverpool City Centre diagnostic centre on Duke Street.
Check the NHS wait before paying, and ask about Right to Choose, which lets you select a different NHS provider at no cost.
The opposite — it is one of the strongest reasons to use a remote service.
Repeat prescriptions, blood pressure discussions, medication reviews and results conversations all work perfectly well by telephone. None of them requires a journey, and for a town with this age profile that is the practical point.
Yes, and for anyone on several long-term medicines it is one of the more useful twenty minutes available.
Send your repeat prescription list in advance. Interactions, duplications, and medicines nobody has questioned in years are common findings.
Your NHS GP and your pharmacist can both do this free too, and we will point you there if that suits you better.
Yes — and a fracture from a fall from standing height is important information.
It is one of the strongest predictors of the next one, and it usually qualifies you for a free NHS DEXA scan. Ask about that before paying for one.
Yes — Birkdale, Ainsdale, Formby, Churchtown, Crossens, Banks, Hesketh Bank and Tarleton.
Yes — electronically, to whichever you use. You collect it, or your usual pharmacy delivery arrangement continues as normal.
Examine you — no blood pressure, no chest, no assessment of a swollen leg or an unsteady gait.
Which matters in an older population. Falls, confusion and sudden deterioration need seeing in person, and we will say so immediately.
And we never prescribe opioids or stimulants remotely, nor benzodiazepines or z-drugs for ongoing use — a point that matters particularly in older people, where these carry a real falls risk.
Southport 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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