Wales Centre for Primary and Emergency Care Research (PRIME Centre Wales)

PRIME Centre Wales is a research centre focusing on primary and emergency care, funded by Health and Care Research Wales in order to develop and coordinate research proposals and support researchers.

It is an all-Wales centre co-led by Cardiff University, Bangor University, University of South Wales, and Swansea University.

PRIME Centre Wales aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people in Wales and internationally through:

Conducting high quality research on topics of national policy priority which contributes to the evidence base in primary and emergency care
Ensuring that research findings are translated into policy and practice

People and community links:

Professor Adrian Edwards - Director PRIME, Director Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Center and Senior Research Leader

Professor Andrew Carson-Stevens - Specialty Lead for Primary Care

Dr Haroon Ahmed - Leads research in infections, antibiotic stewardship, and multimorbidity PRIME, GP and Senior Lecturer

Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)

In the news:

Study to support people living with long Covid (June 2023)

How social prescribing can make positive changes to health and wellbeing (May 2023)

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on incidence of long-term conditions in Wales (March 2023)

Meet the Rhondda Valley GP fighting antibiotic resistance with health data (November 2022)

Talented researchers in Wales working on life-changing research recognised at annual research conference (November 2022)

Welsh researchers to help develop app that could improve quality of life for terminally ill cancer patients (June 2022)