Health Ministry in Collaboration with the World Bank Group Seek to Initiate a New Pragmatic Approach to Healthcare February 9, 2021 Share this post: The Ministry of Health & Wellness in collaboration with the World Bank Group seek to initiate a new pragmatic approach to healthcare. The initiative is referred to as the Performance Based Finance (PBF) mechanism and is a major part of Saint Lucia Health System Strengthening Project. Performance Based Finance Coordinator of the Saint Lucia Health System Strengthening Project, Nahum Jn Baptiste explains this system provides incentives or benefits to both the providers and receivers of healthcare. Nahum JnBaptiste “There are two sets of persons receiving incentives, one would be, let’s look at the most important person, the clients, so the clients would receive for now free laboratory testing and the person who provides the service what they would be doing, they would be receiving additional funds which they could use under agreed conditions based on their performance. So if for example, they set a target and they have achieved a target or surpassed a target we are going to reward them or provide incentives so they can use that service to enhance the services maybe to train their staff or to do other things.”