Online GP appointments for Stafford and the surrounding county, including serving personnel and veterans.
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
Stafford has a large military population. Beacon Barracks sits on the edge of town, and between serving personnel, their families and a substantial veteran community, a meaningful share of local residents have a healthcare history that does not sit neatly in one place.
Frequent postings mean repeated re-registration, records that lag behind the move, and gaps at exactly the wrong moment. A consultation that does not depend on which surgery currently holds your notes is genuinely useful in that situation.
Twenty minutes with a GMC-registered GP costs £40, available 6am to 10pm, seven days a week.
County Hospital serves Stafford, but its role has changed substantially. A significant proportion of acute and emergency care now sits at Royal Stoke, around eighteen miles north, which means a journey for services that were once available in the county town. For anyone without a car, or with someone else to arrange around, that distance is the practical issue.
Stafford is the administrative centre of a largely rural county, and its catchment stretches across villages where public transport is limited and appointments involve real planning. The town itself is comfortable; the surrounding area is mixed, and the gap between the two is wider than the county average suggests.
The military presence shapes healthcare here in ways that are easy to overlook. Serving personnel move every few years. Veterans may carry service-related musculoskeletal injury, hearing loss or mental health needs that were assessed in a different system entirely. Both groups are used to being the newest name on a practice list.
Stafford also sits at the edge of our practical coverage for blood testing. The nearest Randox site is Birmingham, around thirty miles south, so referrals here are often better taken to a local provider — which we will write for you without argument.
Musculoskeletal problems are common among both serving and former personnel — knees, backs and shoulders that have taken years of load-bearing work, often managed rather than resolved.
Mental health support is worth raising directly. Veterans in particular can find the standard route difficult, and a confidential 20-minute appointment with no waiting room removes a real barrier. Where specialist veteran services are the better route, we will say so and help you get there.
Rural access is the other recurring theme, with long-term condition review and repeat prescribing being exactly the sort of thing that should not require a twenty-mile round trip.
This is worth knowing before you need it. County Hospital remains in Stafford, but a significant proportion of acute and emergency care now sits at Royal Stoke, around eighteen miles north.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture mean 999 or the nearest emergency department — and for many people here that is a journey. It is not a reason to hesitate; the ambulance service knows where to take you.
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
Stone, Penkridge, Eccleshall, Gnosall, Rugeley, Cannock, Great Haywood, Hixon
Population served
The nearest Randox site is Birmingham, around thirty miles south — which for most people in Stafford is not a sensible trip.
We will write a referral you can take to a local provider instead, without argument. And where your NHS GP would do the same test free, that is the better answer and we will say so.
Vista Health's MRI unit at Asda Wolstanton Retail Park, Stoke-on-Trent — considerably closer than Birmingham.
Ask about the NHS wait before paying, and about Right to Choose, which lets you select a different NHS provider at no cost.
Not directly, but it explains why people here call us.
Where services moved north, routine appointments became journeys, and a consultation that does not require one removes that for everything a GP can do remotely — results, prescriptions, reviews, referral letters.
What it cannot remove is the need for an examination, and we will say plainly when that is what you need.
Yes — Stone, Penkridge, Eccleshall, Gnosall, Rugeley, Cannock, Great Haywood and Hixon.
Rural Staffordshire has thin bus provision, and remote consultation matters more in the villages than in the county town.
Yes, and for anyone on several long-term medicines it is twenty minutes well spent.
Send your repeat prescription list in advance. Your NHS GP and your pharmacist can both do this free as well, and we will say so if that suits you better.
Yes — electronically, to whichever you use. You collect it yourself.
Sometimes, and often not. A pharmacist, a free GP blood test, or Talking Therapies will serve plenty of people better, and we will tell you so.
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.
Stafford 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, because we have not been inspected. In a county with the history this one has, we would rather say that plainly than imply otherwise.
Clinically reviewed by Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan, GMC 7563469
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026
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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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