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THE World Darts Championship is underway at Ally Pally – and there are some huge ties taking place TODAY!
Reigning champion Luke Humphries started his title defence with a stunning 3-0 victory over Thibault Tricole on the opening night.
Left-handed genius James Wade is in action RIGHT NOW, while 2021 winner Gerwyn Price features tonight.
But teen sensation Luke Littler and his army of fans face a lengthy wait to kickstart his campaign.
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WE ALL have personal ratings for our GP surgery, depending on whether we nab a same-day appointment or are left on hold for hours.
Now, you can see if your rating lines up with the one given by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) – as an interactive map reveals the best and worst rated GP practices across England.
A study has revealed that 5 per cent of GPs in England – amounting to 292 practices – are currently performing below standard.
This means they’ve been rated as ‘Inadequate’ or ‘Requires Improvement’ by the CQC, which regulates health and social care services in England.
Medical negligence specialists at Patient Claim Line revealed the locations of the worst rated NHS GPs and the concerns raised by inspectors.
A total of 278 GPs were given an ‘Outstanding’ rating by regulators, meaning they’re “performing exceptionally well” – about 4.8 per cent of practices.
Meanwhile, 90 per cent of NHS GPs – amounting to 5,193 surgeries – were graded ‘Good’ to show that they’re “performing well and meeting expectations”.
Inspectors thought 261 services weren’t performing as well as they should and a total of 31 were rated ‘Inadequate’ – meaning a service performing so badly that the CQC needed to take action against its provider.
Nermeen Salahuddin, a solicitor at Patient Claim Line, said: “We are concerned by the findings revealed in CQC inspections of doctors’ surgeries across England.
“Our analysis shows alarming shortcomings in the NHS, with GP practices being cited for serious lapses in patient safety and care.
“The inspections highlight a lack of oversight, ineffective governance, and failures to address key areas such as safeguarding, staff training, and the management of health risks.
“These deficiencies, including the misdiagnosis of serious conditions like diabetes and the lack of adequate monitoring for patients on
high-risk medications, show that patient care is being compromised in ways that could have life-altering consequences.
“GPs rated ‘inadequate’ must take immediate and decisive action to ensure that patients across the country feel safe and properly cared for when they visit their doctors.”
GPs are assessed on five core categories, whether they’re: safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well-led.
GPs have called CQC one-word ratings “fundamentally flawed” and urged that the CQC inspection regime should be scrapped altogether.
But others say that the CQC’s inspections and ratings are an
effective system for regulating and inspecting health and social care providers in England.
Of the GPs that failed to meet regulators’ standards, six were in Essex, four were in the West Midlands and another four in London.
CQC experts identified issues with systems supposed to ensure patient safety, staffing and training, governance and hygiene.
Patient Claim Line picked out ratings from some GP practices rated ‘Inadequate’.
For example, inspectors at Church Langley Medical Centre in Harlow, Essex, found “there were gaps in systems to assess, monitor and manage risks to patient safety and that “vaccines were not
appropriately stored to ensure they remained safe and effective”.
A scheme dubbed Pharmacy First that allows chemists to treat seven common health conditions was rolled out in pharmacies in England earlier this year.
Its aim is to free up GP appointments for patients who need them most and give people quicker and more convenient access to healthcare and medicines, where necessary.
Pharmacists across England are able to assess and treat patients for:
“Appropriate standards of cleanliness and hygiene were not met,” inspectors added in their rating.
As for Faircross s Health Centre in Barking, a “misdiagnosis of diabetes” was identified in three patients.
For the Tulasi Medical Centre in Dagenham, inspectors said: “There continued to be a risk of harm to patients due to the absence of all the necessary systems and processes being in place, or operating effectively which could adversely impact the quality and safety of
the service being delivered at the practice.”
A total of 278 GPs were rated ‘Outstanding’, accounting for 4.8 per cent of surgeries across England.
Twenty-three of these were in Devon and Greater Manchester, 19 in Nottinghamshire and 17 in Derbyshire.
Another 14 were in the West Midlands and 11 in Cumbria.
The report comes after ambulance and A&E bosses warned that more patients are falling critically ill because they fail to get help from their GP.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting last month that hospitals will be ranked in a national league table as part of a crackdown on badly performing trusts.
Mr Streeting said there will be “zero tolerance for failure” and crisis teams will be sent to turn around low-ranking hospitals that failed to meet standards on waiting times, patient care and spending.
DARTS fans are in for a thrilling end to 2024 as the World Championship begins TODAY – and the top stars will be battling it out for the iconic crown once again!
Luke Humphries rubber-stamped his name in darts history by beating teen sensation Luke Littler to lift the 2023/24 crown and earn World No 1 status for the first time in his career.
It was a match fit to be labelled as the showpiece event, with Humphries marginally winning 7-4 despite being 4-2 down at one stage.
The tournament broke records by recording the most 180s achieved (914), raising £914,000 for charity, which was ultimately rounded up to £1 million.
And with competition rife as ever, especially between the two Lukes, fans are in for another super spectacle at Alexandra Palace.
Humphries is set to start his campaign on the first night of the competition and will face the winner of Thibault Tricole vs Joe Comito, while Littler will not play until December 21 – the same night as Tyson Fury‘s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
Plus, the likes of Stephen Bunting, Nathan Aspinall and Michael van Gerwen are all set to feature.
But there will be no emotional Ally Pally send-off for darts legend Steve Beaton as the Bronzed Adonis failed at the first hurdle of Tour Card Holder qualifying.
It will be the best of five sets in the first and second rounds of the tournament.
As the rounds progress, matches go to best of seven, then nine before reaching best of 11.
While the final will be the best of 13 sets.
The 32 highest-ranking darts players have already automatically qualified for the second round.
BELOW is a list of Darts world champions by year.
The list does not include winners from the pre-Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) era or BDO world champions.
That means Raymond van Barneveld, for example, is only listed once – Barney also won four BDO titles – and none of Eric Bristow’s five BDO titles are included.
Most World Titles
Sunday, December 15
Evening Session (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Monday, December 16
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Evening Session (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Tuesday, December 17
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Evening Session (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Wednesday, December 18 (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Thursday, December 19
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Evening Session (7pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Friday, December 20
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x First Round, 1x Second Round
Evening Session (7pm)
2x First Round, 2x Second Round
Saturday, December 21
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
4x Second Round
Evening Session (7pm)
4x Second Round
Sunday, December 22
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
4x Second Round
Evening Session (7pm)
4x Second Round
Monday, December 23
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
4x Second Round
Evening Session (7pm)
4x Second Round
Friday, December 27
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x Third Round
Evening Session (7pm)
3x Third Round
Saturday, December 28
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x Third Round
Evening Session (7pm)
3x Third Round
Sunday, December 29
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x Third Round
Evening Session (7pm)
1x Third Round, 2x Fourth Round
Monday, December 30
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
3x Fourth Round
Evening Session (7pm)
3x Fourth Round
Wednesday, January 1
Afternoon Session (12.30pm)
2x Quarter-Finals
Evening Session (7pm)
2x Quarter-Finals
Thursday, January 2 (7.30pm)
Semi-Finals
Friday, January 3 (8pm)
Final
SHOCKING video shows the moment two planes crash into each other as the pilots scream over the deafening sound of scraping metal.
Two planes collided on the runway after an electrical failure forced one to make an emergency landing.
Footage taken from the cockpit of the stricken craft shows it tilting wildly while coming into land.
Just yards ahead, another light aircraft can be seen lined up with the runway.
It touches down just seconds before the plane behind makes contact with the tarmac.
A few seconds later, shouts of panic ring out.
Almost instantaneously, a bang and a crunch are heard as the second plane slams into the aircraft in front.
After a few tense seconds with the camera pointing down, the occupants can be heard asking each other if they’re OK.
Thankfully, no one was badly hurt in the collision at Pearland Regional Airport, in Houston, Texas.
However, the person who recorded the video on December 11 said both planes were “likely totaled.”
He and his friends had taken off from Galveston earlier that day.
But their 1973 Grumman American AA-5 Traveler developed “electrical issues” while approaching their destination.
He wrote on social media: “First, the headsets went out, then the radio, then the avionics.
“We knew we had to get down quickly and made an emergency landing behind another plane with no working instruments.
The prop tore a hole in the left side of his fuselage and destroyed the side of his aircraft.
Passenger
“Fortunately, our skilled pilot was able to set us down.
“However, with no way to communicate, the pilot ahead was unaware of our presence and stopped abruptly to make a left turn on the tarmac.
“With our flaps not operational, we couldn’t slow down fast enough and plowed into his plane as he turned.
“The prop tore a hole in the left side of his fuselage and destroyed the side of his aircraft.”
The T-boned aircraft is a Cessna 182T Skylane, as reported by NeedToKnow.
The passenger continued: “Thankfully, he had no passenger in the back seat, or it would have been fatal.
“In our aircraft, the impact was devastating, with aluminum crumpling and glass exploding everywhere.
“My shoulder pushed through the window, and I sustained slight external injuries. But thankfully, everyone was okay.”
The NTSB did not respond immediately to The U.S. Sun’s requests for comment.
PRINCE Andrew won’t be joining the Royal Family at Sandringham for Christmas after his “close confidant” Chinese “spy” is unmasked.
The Duke of York has has decided to give the celebrations a miss this year.
It is understood his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York, has also dropped out from the Norfolk festivities.
The pair are said to be staying at Royal Lodge for the period instead.
Both Andrew and Fergie’s daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, had already chosen to spend Christmas with their respective in-laws.
It comes as a suspected Chinese spy who was friends with Andrew has been unmasked for the first time.
Yang Tengbo, 50 – who is understood to have been a “close confidante” of the Duke of York – can be named after a court anonymity ban was lifted this afternoon.
During a tribunal hearing, judges concluded Yang had not been honest about his links to the Chinese state and could exploit his relationship with the duke and other public figures.
The former chairman of Hampton Group had been in the country for two decades.
Photos show him posing alongside ex-Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May, as well as the royal.
He was even invited to Andrew’s birthday party in 2020 and supported him through his recent scandals.
But the suspected spy subsequently lost an appeal against a decision to ban him from the UK on national security grounds.
He was stopped by counter-terrorism services in 2021 and ordered to surrender his devices.
Court documents said Yang had split his time between China and the UK and told officials he considered this country his second home.
In February last year, he was “off-boarded” from a flight from Beijing to London and told the home secretary was in the process of examining the case to exclude him from the UK.
That order was made the following month, with his appeal against the decision rejected last week by a special immigration appeals tribunal.
Judges concluded Yang had not been honest about his links to the Chinese state and could exploit his relationship with the duke and other public figures.
Guy Vassall-Adams KC, for Yang, told the High Court: “There has been an enormous amount of media reporting in relation to this story, and particularly in relation to the relationship between my client, H6, and Prince Andrew, as well as a huge amount of speculation about the identity of my client.”
Yang said he has “done nothing wrong or unlawful”, adding in a statement that the “widespread description of me as a ‘spy’ is entirely untrue”.
It comes after the Sun reported last week a foreign agent knew how to sneak people in and out of the duke’s Royal Lodge home.
The shock revelation emerged in a letter from one of the royal’s top advisers, Dominic Hampshire, to the spy.
Mr Hampshire continued to work for Andrew even after the note was found by MI5 on the spy’s phone in 2020.
It read: “I hope that it is clear to you where you sit with my principal (Andrew) and indeed his family.
“You should never underestimate the strength of that relationship.
“You sit at the very top of a tree many people would like to be on.”
It added: “Under your guidance, we found a way to get the relevant people unnoticed in and out of the house in Windsor.”
Mr Hampshire also confirmed the man could act for Andrew in talks with Chinese investors.
The note was sent 10 months after the duke withdrew from public life after paying damages to Virginia Roberts-Giuffre, a victim of his US paedo pal Jeffrey Epstein.
A source told The Sun: “Dom was still working for the duke until at least April this year.
“It’s hard to believe, given that Andrew must have known for years that his Chinese links had become a matter of national security.”
A statement from the duke’s office on Friday said “nothing of a sensitive nature [was] ever discussed”.
The statement added: “The Duke of York followed advice from HMG and ceased all contact with the individual after concerns were raised.
“The duke met the individual through official channels, with nothing of a sensitive nature ever discussed.
“He is unable to comment further on matters relating to national security.”
Writing for the Sun, royal expert Phil Dampier said: “By allowing a Chinese spy inside royal residences like Windsor and Buckingham Palace he endangered the security of the whole Royal Family and the institution of the monarchy.”
