The Health and Wellbeing Board of Manchester Council was scheduled to consider a range of significant health and social care plans for the city. Key discussions were scheduled to focus on the Drugs and Alcohol Delivery Plan, the Making Manchester Fairer Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation, and the Place Partnership Plan for Health and Social Care, alongside the Neighbourhood Health and Care Plan.

Drugs and Alcohol Delivery Plan

The Board was scheduled to receive an update on the health-related outcomes of the Greater Manchester Combatting Drugs Partnership delivery plan, with a specific focus on Manchester's treatment and recovery outcomes. The report was scheduled to detail progress and endorse proposed future priorities for the Combatting Drugs Partnership (CDP). Recommendations were scheduled to include considering and commenting on the report's information, recognising the role of the CDP and Manchester's contribution, and endorsing future CDP priorities. The report was also scheduled to outline specific work programmes related to reducing drug and alcohol harms, including addressing hidden harm, ketamine use, and co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions. It was also scheduled to cover the Greater Manchester Alcohol Harm Strategy and support for children and young people affected by substance misuse. The report was scheduled to highlight Manchester's performance against local metrics for adults in structured treatment, including trends for opiate, crack-only, alcohol-only, and non-opiate users, as well as unplanned exits from treatment and deaths from drug misuse. The report was also scheduled to provide an update on the Making Substantial Progress outcome measure and continuity of care from prison to community treatment.

Making Manchester Fairer - Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation

This report was scheduled to set out the proposed approach to monitoring and evaluation for Making Manchester Fairer, which is Manchester's strategic approach to addressing inequalities that shape residents' health, wellbeing, and life chances. The recommendations were scheduled to include noting the proposed monitoring and evaluation approach, supporting the continued development of targeted metrics and inequality-gap measures, and supporting the proposed alignment of the Annual Temperature Check with State of the City reporting. The report was scheduled to detail how monitoring would track inequality gaps and emerging risks, and how evaluation would assess the programme's contribution to system change. It was also scheduled to outline how governance would use evidence and learning to strengthen delivery and inform the programme's approach for 2027–2035, aligned with the Our Manchester Strategy. Early indicators of progress were scheduled to be presented, alongside plans for developing deeper intelligence through more detailed analysis.

Place Partnership Plan for Health and Social Care

The Board was scheduled to consider Manchester's five-year plan for health and social care, which also fulfils the statutory role of the Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy between Manchester City Council and the NHS. The plan was scheduled to build on Manchester's history of partnership working and focus on collaborative actions to improve health, reduce health inequalities, integrate health and care services and spending, deliver quality and accessible services, and meet national plans. Recommendations were scheduled to include approving the Place Partnership Plan for health and social care, subject to final revisions based on comments from the Manchester Partnership Board. The plan was scheduled to outline five strategic aims: improving health and wellbeing, preventing ill health and inequalities, ensuring safe and equitable services, enabling people and communities to be active partners, and achieving a sustainable system with more joined-up services closer to home. It was also scheduled to detail priority programmes of work, including prevention of ill health and inequalities, children and young people's service integration, mental health service transformation, General Practice access and quality, long-term conditions, neighbourhoods, the left shift and care on time, urgent and emergency care, and North Manchester.

Neighbourhood Health and Care Plan

This report was scheduled to present Manchester's five-year plan for neighbourhood health and social care. The plan was scheduled to build on the city's existing neighbourhood health and care delivery and outline how partners would mature the neighbourhood health and care model in line with national and Greater Manchester policy developments. Recommendations were scheduled to include approving the Neighbourhood Health and Care Plan, subject to final revisions based on comments from the Manchester Partnership Board. The plan was scheduled to detail the city's established approach to neighbourhood health and care delivery, showing how partners would build on this to mature the model by 2031. It was also scheduled to align with national and Greater Manchester policy, including the Ten Year Plan for Health and the Neighbourhood Health Framework. The report was scheduled to detail the codesigned future neighbourhood health and care model, emphasising a universal, all-age neighbourhood offer delivered through integrated neighbourhood teams and Primary Care Networks. Key priorities for maturing the model by 2031 were scheduled to include aligning the system around shared outcomes, mobilising resources for neighbourhood delivery, devolving power and resources to neighbourhoods, developing enabling infrastructure, and strengthening neighbourhood culture, partnership, and accountability.

The Board was also scheduled to consider the Manchester Partnership Board Feedback, which was to provide an update on the activities of the Board. Additionally, minutes from the previous meeting on 10 June 2026 were scheduled for approval. Other items scheduled for consideration included a MFT Strategy Update, a Population Health and Insight Profile, the Better Care Fund Plan 2026/27 & Place Grant, a People Experiencing Sight Loss JSNA - Progress Update, a Defibrillators update: need, provision and funding opportunities, a Summary and overview of Manchester Best Start in Life Plan, and a review of Meeting the Standard? A review of the Accessible Information Standard in GP Practice.