Adrian Edwards

Adrian Edwards is Professor of General Practice at Cardiff University. He serves as Director of the Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre and PRIME Centre Wales—an all-Wales research consortium for Primary and Emergency Care partnering with Bangor University, Swansea University, and University of South Wales. He maintains a visiting professorship at Aarhus University, Denmark, and works part-time as a General Practitioner in Cwmbran, South Wales, while co-leading the Population Medicine Route of Cardiff's intercalated BSc program.

His research centers on implementation science in healthcare quality and safety, with specific expertise in shared decision-making frameworks, patient-centered care models, self-management interventions for chronic conditions, and primary care safety systems. Recent work examines pandemic impacts on long-term condition incidence, NHS service sustainability through co-produced pre-conception health approaches, and digital solutions for palliative care.

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Advising and Grants: Edwards supervised a Health PhD Studentship Scheme project (2018-2022) titled "Starting a family when you have inflammatory arthritis: can a co-production approach to creating pre-conception health improve the sustainability of NHS services?". He directs major funded initiatives including the Wales COVID-19 Evidence Centre (launched March 2021) and PRIME Centre Wales, securing £20M+ for UK-wide long Covid research and Welsh pandemic recovery projects as evidenced by 12+ institutional announcements from 2021-2023.

Labs and Teams: He leads PRIME Centre Wales—a cross-institutional hub for primary/emergency care research—and the Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre, which coordinates evidence synthesis for Welsh health policy. These teams collaborate with NHS Wales, international universities, and community stakeholders on projects spanning pre-conception health, cancer palliation, and post-pandemic health system resilience.