Yvette Cloete

Mother, wife, Paediatric Clinical Director and consultant ABUHB & Medical Educator. Proudly South African & Welsh! I love my life :-) Always be kind. She / her

[MonGirlsSport @MonGirlsSport]

Welsh Schools Athletics Plate Champions 2024! Congratulations Sienna, Jess, Sophie, Verity, Tor, Tilly and Seren on some brilliant performances today. A wonderful start to the summer holidays! #proud @Habsmonmouth @Headmongirls @WelshAthletics

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

We were happy to share our work with Primary Care. QI is an essential part of improving the care we give to our patients. Very pleased to be seeing the results of much shorter waits.

[Clifford Jones @CliffJonesGP]

Many in NHS have a negative opinion of #QualityImprovement activity.
Often seen as distracting from "proper work"
Today our #PrimaryCare teams heard from Paediatrics colleagues about the massive improvements they've made to wait times and services through a focus on QI
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[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

@CliffJonesGP Thanks for the lovely words. We are really proud of what the team have achieved and happy to share with others.

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

@welshcake39 @CliffJonesGP Happy to share our work.

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

Such a beautiful description of a job I love. I cannot imagine doing anything else. Such a privilege.

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

@GreenManFest is one of our family’s happy places. Running along the canal with my baby, my gorgeous eldest in the Pride March, playing board games and walking to Crickhowell and then obviously the music and mud 😍

[Clifford Jones @CliffJonesGP]

As a GP working for an integrated health board on interface and pathways, you often find yourself refereeing between #PrimaryCare and hospital specialties.

I'll be honest, some specialties are hard work!😬

Thankfully, some are great to work with (I'm looking at you, paeds!)🥳

[MonGirlsSport @MonGirlsSport]

What a brilliant day at Oxford track. U14 and U16 Haberdashers’ Athletics winners! Congratulations on some excellent performances and special mention to Sophie who broke the U16 high jump record #gopink

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

@PeterLachman the answer about how to make time for QI is all about embedding a QI culture. We will be discussing this at 14:45 today in our QI workshop #rcpch23 Conference

[John Rasquinha @johnrasq]

@WelshBok1 and I will be talking about this and more on how we are establishing a QI culture in our Paediatric department at
@AneurinBevanUHB at #RCPCH23 conference, 1445 today
@RCPCHtweets
@ABCiAb

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

What an amazing 2 days so far. Looking forward to sharing how we have made QI work to improve Paediatric outpatients in @AneurinBevanUHB with the help of @ABCiAb. So anyone still at #rcpch23 at 14:45 come and share in our journey. We would love to learn from your experiences too.

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

What a powerful start to #RCPCH23 - compassion for ourselves, each other & our patients is paramount. Being a doctor (and particularly a Paediatrician) is such such an incredible privilege and can be so stressful and so easy to miss the signs of colleagues or ourselves struggling

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

@clarelipetz Well deserved break!

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

My two homes in a photo

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

@clarelipetz Can’t wait! I hate the long dark nights! Even after 26 years I struggle. Miss Sunny SA!

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

Excellent thread explaining what is wrong with the NHS. I have never known it like this. It is amazing that so many keep coming back to do their best for their patients & colleagues. What scares me is that there will be point where even the most positive & resilient are broken.

[Peter Neville @peteneville65]

For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help.

I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

My lovely Seren being mascot 😍

[Cardiff Rugby @Cardiff_Rugby]

😍 There's nothing like a sold out @ArmsParkCardiff and we're back at CAP for the @scarlets_rugby on Saturday.

We're expecting another bumper crowd so make sure you get your tickets early.

📞 029 20 302030

💻 https://t.co/2ldQ1QjDUO

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

Such a perfect description. Life in Paeds world is really hard at the moment.

[Genevieve @genevievethueux]

Paediatrics is currently like a really scary version of Where's Wally. You're looking for that stripey jumper, glasses and hat wearing bloke in a sea of people, mostly all wearing stripey jumpers, some with glasses and occasionally also the hat....

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

Such a good read. Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the moment is extremely stressful due to the sheer volume of relatively well patients presenting and the challenge of then correctly identifying the needle (sepsis) in the haystack (feverish children)

[Damian Roland @Damian_Roland]

What makes winter pressures so dangerous for children?

Important to realise that children presenting with fever, high heart rates and being 'unwell' are overwhelmingly likely to not have a bacterial origin to their illness.

https://t.co/oewzak88kM

https://t.co/PI5OVVpk4y

[Yvette Cloete @WelshBok1]

@Least_ordinary So many times.