Online GP appointments for Widnes, with blood testing ten miles away in Liverpool.
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
Widnes is where the British chemical industry began, and the town has carried the consequences of that for a century and a half — economically, environmentally and in its health record.
It is also a town where hospital care means crossing into Merseyside, which is a short journey on paper and a less convenient one in practice. A consultation that happens at home removes that entirely.
Twenty minutes with a GMC-registered GP costs £40, available from 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, with blood testing about ten miles away in Liverpool.
Widnes sits in Halton but looks north across the Mersey for much of its hospital care, principally to Whiston. That cross-boundary arrangement is long established but still produces the familiar friction of records, referrals and follow-up sitting in a different system from the one your GP belongs to.
Halton's health profile is among the more challenging in the North West, and Widnes carries a meaningful share of that. Deprivation is concentrated in specific wards, and the gap in outcomes between those and the borough's better-off areas is substantial across quite short distances.
The town's industrial legacy is not only historical. Chemical and process manufacturing remains part of the local economy, alongside logistics, and shift working is common enough to shape when people can realistically be seen.
Widnes has a strong local identity, much of it built around rugby league, and a population that tends to stay. That continuity is a genuine asset for healthcare — people know their history and their family history — but it also means health patterns repeat across generations in ways that are worth taking seriously rather than accepting.
Cardiovascular and respiratory risk assessment are particularly relevant here, and a comprehensive blood panel with a formal risk score is often more useful than treating symptoms one at a time.
Diabetes and prediabetes screening comes up frequently. HbA1c catches the reversible stage, which is precisely the point at which intervention is worth most.
Occupational injury and fitness-to-work documentation are common requests among a workforce in physical and process-based roles.
Widnes carries a meaningful share of Halton's health inequality, and the free routes here are worth naming before the paid ones.
Widnes looks north across the Mersey for much of its hospital care, principally to Whiston, which is where the emergency department sits.
Chest pain, stroke symptoms, sudden breathlessness or a suspected fracture go there or to 999, not to a remote consultation.
Bowel screening from 50. The kit arrives by post, takes minutes, and is one of the few screening tests with proven mortality benefit.
It is returned least often in the places where it would help most, and Widnes is one of them. Cervical screening from 25 and breast screening from 50 are equally free and equally worth doing.
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
Farnworth, Appleton, Ditton, Hough Green, Upton Rocks, Cronton, Hale, Halebank
Population served
Randox Health Liverpool — about ten miles.
Ask your NHS GP first. Where the same test is available free at your surgery, that is the better route and we will say so.
Vista Health's Liverpool City Centre diagnostic centre on Duke Street.
Ask about the NHS wait before paying, and about Right to Choose — you can select a different NHS provider with a shorter wait at no cost. Very few people are told this.
No. Widnes sits in Halton but is treated largely at Whiston, and that split creates real friction with records and follow-up — within the NHS.
It makes no difference to us. We write to whichever service is correct, and we will get the referral addressed properly first time rather than leaving you to chase it.
Yes — 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. Process manufacturing and logistics shifts are the norm here, and they do not fit a standard appointment system.
Sometimes, and often not — and we say which.
A pharmacist treating you free today beats paying us. So does a free GP blood test, and so does Talking Therapies for low mood.
What £40 buys is speed, and twenty minutes on something that has been rushed before.
Yes where clinically justified. But not for the first seven days — self-certification covers that, and paying inside it is money wasted.
Yes — Farnworth, Appleton, Ditton, Hough Green, Upton Rocks, Cronton, Hale and Halebank.
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.
Widnes 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.
Which NHS trust treats you does not change who regulates us. The same standards apply across England.
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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