NQP addresses some of the nation’s highest priority—and most complex—healthcare issues by engaging stakeholders from across the continuum of care. 

Guided by the NQP Leadership Consortium, NQP sets priorities for action and provides strategic direction for healthcare improvement.

NQF, working together with the NQP Action Teams, patient partners, clinicians, consumers, health plans, and other stakeholders, develops and delivers timely, practical resources for real-world needs. These tools help those on the frontlines improve the quality of care throughout their organizations.

Current NQP initiatives include:

• NQP Leadership Consortium 
• NQP Action Team to Prevent Healthcare Workplace Violence
• NQP Action Team to Co-Design Patient-Centered Health Systems

Results

NQP’s strong record of success stems from initiatives that emphasize action and implementation that help tackle some of the nation’s most pressing healthcare needs. All NQP products can be downloaded on the NQF Store:

• The NQP Playbook™: Supporting Shared Decision Making for Individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease provides practical guidance to healthcare providers and organizations on how to use shared decision making to address the unique decision-making needs of individuals with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease.
• The NQP Playbook™: Improving Access to High Quality Care for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness provides concrete strategies, implementation examples, and resources for healthcare delivery organizations and clinicians committed to improving access to care and outcomes for individuals living with SMI
• The NQP Playbook™: Antibiotic Stewardship in Post-Acute Care and Long-Term Care is an essential tool for post-acute and long-term care facilities seeking to implement, improve, and sustain antibiotic stewardship programs and improve the safety and quality of care for their residents and their families.
• The NQP Playbook™: Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Care provides a roadmap for U.S. hospitals to strengthen antibiotic stewardship programs and helped spur national standards requiring that hospitals have robust antimicrobial stewardship programs in place to address antibiotic overuse and misuse
• The NQP Playbook™: Opioid Stewardship provides essential guidance for healthcare organizations and clinicians across care settings committed to appropriate pain management strategies and opioid stewardship.
• The NQP Playbook™: Shared Decision Making is the go-to resource for healthcare organizations and clinicians across care settings to implement and strengthen shared decision making – making it a reality for all patients.
• NQP’s Advanced Illness Care Issue Brief provides physicians with tools to discuss complex issues with patients about their preferences and goals for advanced illness care
• The Early Elective Delivery Playbook contributed to a 50 percent decline in early elective deliveries nationwide over a three-year period

Get Involved

Interested in being a part of our work? Learn how to get involved with NQP and review the Frequently Asked Questions. Please contact National Quality Partners to fund current and future initiatives.