Online GP appointments for Tarporley and the rural villages of central Cheshire, where the nearest hospital is a serious journey.
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
Tarporley is about as central as Cheshire gets, and that is not the advantage it sounds like. Being in the middle of the county means being a long way from the edges of it, which is where the hospitals are.
For the villages around here — Bunbury, Utkinton, Beeston, Cotebrook — a hospital appointment is a properly planned expedition rather than an errand.
A 20-minute consultation with a GMC-registered GP costs £40 and requires no journey at all. Appointments run 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, and any prescription, sick note or referral letter is included.
The Countess of Chester is around twelve miles west and Leighton at Crewe roughly fourteen miles south-east. Both are perfectly manageable by car and genuinely difficult without one. Rural bus provision in central Cheshire is limited and getting thinner, and there is no railway station in the village.
This is farming country as well as commuter country, and the two populations have quite different needs. The agricultural community here has the health profile that goes with the work — musculoskeletal problems, injuries, sun exposure, and a well-documented reluctance to take time out to see anyone about any of it.
Tarporley itself is affluent and has a good range of local services, but the wider catchment is genuinely rural, and rural access is the defining healthcare fact of this area.
Farming brings back and joint problems, hearing loss from machinery, and a high threshold for seeking help. The barrier is rarely cost here — it is that going to a surgery means half a day away from work that cannot easily be taken.
Sun exposure over decades of outdoor work makes skin checking worth doing properly, and photographs assess well remotely provided they are taken correctly.
For older residents in the outlying villages who have given up driving, remote consultation is the difference between routine review happening and quietly lapsing. Repeat prescriptions, blood pressure monitoring and results discussions all work well without anyone getting in a car.
The Countess of Chester is around twelve miles west and Leighton at Crewe roughly fourteen miles south-east. Both are manageable by car and genuinely difficult without one, and there is no railway station in the village.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture mean 999. Do not weigh up the drive — call an ambulance and let them decide the route.
Bowel screening from 50, cervical screening from 25, breast screening from 50. All free, all posted or invited automatically, and each does something no private blood panel can.
Rural return rates for bowel screening are lower than they should be, and the kit takes minutes at your own kitchen table.
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
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Nearest imaging centre
Bunbury, Utkinton, Cotebrook, Eaton, Beeston, Tiverton, Alpraham, Duddon, Kelsall
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That is precisely what this is for.
Appointments run 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, and a consultation takes twenty minutes from a farm office, a kitchen or a vehicle.
The barrier here has rarely been cost — it is that going to a surgery means half a day that cannot easily be taken. Removing the half day is the point.
Yes, and skin assesses well remotely provided the photographs are taken correctly.
Good light, in focus, close up and from a slight distance, with something for scale. Decades of outdoor work make skin checking genuinely worth doing rather than putting off.
Where something needs seeing in person or excising, we will say so and refer — a photograph cannot replace an examination for everything.
Randox Health at Holland & Barrett, Broughton is the listed partner clinic.
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 add a journey.
Vista Health's MRI unit at the Asda superstore on Holt Road, Wrexham.
Check the NHS wait before paying, and ask about Right to Choose, which lets you select a different NHS provider at no cost.
Yes — Bunbury, Utkinton, Cotebrook, Eaton, Beeston, Tiverton, Alpraham, Duddon and Kelsall.
Rural bus provision in central Cheshire is limited and getting thinner, which is exactly why a consultation that needs no travel matters more here than in the towns.
The opposite. For older residents in the outlying villages, remote consultation is often the difference between routine review happening and quietly lapsing.
Repeat prescriptions, blood pressure discussions, medication reviews and results conversations all work perfectly well by telephone.
Yes — electronically, to whichever pharmacy you use. You collect it; nothing is posted.
Examine you — no blood pressure, no chest, no joints. A back or shoulder problem from years of physical work often needs hands on it, and we will say so.
And we never prescribe opioids or stimulants remotely, nor benzodiazepines or z-drugs for ongoing use — which matters here, because opioids are not effective long-term treatment for chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Tarporley 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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Your NHS record in the room
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Told when a test isn’t needed
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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
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Usually
Free
Same day
Often 10 to 15 minutes
Usually not
Sometimes charged
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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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