Health informatics

12 GROWING UP

The NHS Infrastructure Maturity Model (NIMM) is a comprehensive approach to improving IT infrastructure by benchmarking and managing performance. Andy Savvides, Principal Consultant at Atos Consulting, provides some background to this useful maturity model and contextualised insight into how the top-down approach taken by the NIMM can improve the quality of IT infrastructure.

The NIMM was developed by the NHS Technology Office in collaboration with a number of different NHS IT organisations. Atos Healthcare worked closely with the NHS, helping to define and develop the NIMM as well as support initiatives to raise awareness across the NHS IT leadership community and NHS infrastructure partners. A number of different models and ...