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Healthcare spending reached $2.2 trillion in 2007, up more than 6 percent from the year before. Costs per-person hit nearly $7,500 for the year.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

HIMSS includes NPP as a top policy priority for the 112th Congress and the Obama Administration.

The National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality leads joint effort to align child health priorities with NPP.

IOM recommends AHRQ reports align with nationally recognized priority areas. 

The HIT Policy Committee’s Meaningful Use Workgroup uses NPP priorities as a framework for meaningful use.

The American Nurses Association leads effort to examine nursing’s role in advancing NPP’s priorities and goals.

The American Board of Internal Medicine incorporates patient experience into maintenance of certification program.

The American Hospice Foundation is helping consumers make decisions about hospice care. 

CMS is working with communities across the nation to improve care transitions. 

See all the work underway, and learn how you can support the National Priorities Partnership.


Pitney Bowes — along with General Electric, PepsiCo and IBM — has been working with NPP Partner organization National Business Group on Health to design an end-of-life toolkit for employers, which will help caregivers and employees with a life-limiting diagnosis. That work was featured on NPR. 

Report to HHS 

NPP offers consultative support to the Department of Health and Human Services on setting national priorities and goals for the HHS National Quality Strategy. NPP released its input on the National Quality Strategy to HHS on September 1, 2011.

Read the report.


Public and Member Comment 

NPP has been asked by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide annual input on the development of a National Quality Strategy. To fulfill this role, NPP:

  • Identified national goals that map to the priorities put forth in the National Quality Strategy;
  • Provided input on measures for tracking national progress toward the goals; and
  • Offered guidance on high-leverage strategic opportunities to accelerate improvement.

NQF members and the public have the opportunity to comment on NPP’s draft input to HHS from August 12, 2011 to August 22, 2011. The report is due to HHS on Sept. 1, 2011. More Details


Patient Safety Activities 

Learn about the National Priorities Partnership’s collaborative work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the Partnership for Patients - National Priorities Partnership Patient Safety Webinar Series. More Details

The Partnership for Patients and National Priorities Partnership will convene quarterly meetings to work collaboratively toward improving patient safety. More Details


2011 NPP Activities 

Learn about the National Priorities Partnership's 2011 work providing input to the Department of Health and Human Services on the National Quality Strategy. More Details


Compact Action Briefs 

The National Priorities Partnership has released sets of specific actions to reduce healthcare costs in three important areas: preventing hospital readmissions, reducing emergency department overuse, and preventing medication errors. These Compact Action Briefs (CABs) offer information on opportunities to reduce cost and improve patient health, evidence-based solutions, and specific actions that will drive toward lower cost and better quality.


National Priorities Partnership Roster 

Following a call for organizational nominations, NQF's Board of Directors approved a slate of organizations that best balanced the multistakeholder representation of NPP, supported the implementation of the priorities and represented diverse or underserved populations.


National Priorities Partnership Input to HHS on the National Quality Strategy

In September 2010 the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requested public input for the development of a National Health Care Quality Strategy and Plan. HHS is seeking feedback around a framework for developing the National Quality Strategy, including the identification of guiding principles, and specific priorities and goals; strategies for stakeholder engagement; and States’ needs for implementation.

Under contract to provide input to the HHS Secretary on the National Quality Strategy, the National Priorities Partnership (NPP) put forth its recommendations on priorities and goals in a report submitted to HHS on October 14, 2010. NPP proposes the inclusion of its original six priority areas—patient and family engagement, population health, safety, care coordination, palliative and end-of-life care, and elimination of overuse—and recommends augmenting these six priorities with two additional areas of focus particularly relevant in this era of health reform: equitable access to ensure that all patients have access to affordable, timely, and high-quality care; and infrastructure supports (e.g., health information technology) to address underlying system changes that will be necessary to attain the goals of the other priority areas.

Read the National Priorities Partnership’s (NPP) guidance for responding to HHS’s request for public feedback which was prepared in response to the request of many stakeholders interested in aligning their input with that of the NPP.