Member Councils

Member organizations of the NQF have the opportunity to take part in a national dialogue about how to measure health care quality and report the findings to consumers, purchasers, providers, and policymakers. Members will vote on Forum leadership and participate in the Forum through one of four Member Councils: the Consumer Council, Purchaser Council, Health Professional, Provider and Health Plan Council, and Research and Quality Improvement Council.

Consumer Council

NQF promotes development and dissemination of quality information to enhance consumer choice and to foster public understanding and use of quality information. Members of the Consumer Council are national, state, regional, and local consumer organizations. Through the Council, diverse consumer organizations develop a shared vision of consumer needs for quality information and how NQF can meet those needs.

Health Professional, Provider and Health Plan Council

NQF promotes valid, comparative data needed to improve healthcare quality. Participants in the Health Professional, Provider and Health Plan Council include frontline caregivers, health plans, health systems, hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, home healthcare agencies, long-term care and other residential facilities, and professional societies and other groups of health care practitioners. By promoting a shared agenda on quality among providers and collaboration with purchasers, NQF seeks to significantly advance quality improvement and reduce the cost and burden or reporting on duplicative measures.

Purchaser Council

In their role as purchasers of healthcare and as employers, private corporations and government agencies have an enormous stake in improving quality, reducing the cost of illness, and enhancing the health and productivity of the workforce. The Purchaser Council provides a venue for public and private purchasers to build demand and capacity for quality improvement. This Council includes public purchasers, regional purchasing coalitions, corporations, and business groups.

Research and Quality Improvement Council

NQF builds on advances made by quality improvement organizations and experts to promote use of quality measures by purchasers, consumers, providers, and policymakers. Members of this Council are organizations that conduct research, education, or initiatives to improve healthcare quality, measurement, and reporting. The Council also includes accrediting bodies, professional societies, policy and quality centers, federal, state, and local government agencies, and supporting industries such as device and pharmaceutical manufacturers.