Regional view

England Dashboard

England: 73 indicators across 11 domains; devolved service metrics use England-specific sources (NHS England RTT, DfE, MHCLG).

England Societal Resilience · October 2026

51/100Fragileunchanged since September

A stress reading from 0 to 100. Higher means more stress; 0 is calm, 100 is the most severe reading the scale describes.

robust range 43–52 under alternative methods

A single measured reading across eleven national systems. England is fragile, and has held steady since the previous release.

Medium · 71 of 73 indicators verified

Release movements

What changed this release

Since the September 2026 release

21 of 71 comparable indicators had a real change in their inputs since the September 2026 release.

New observations
15
the publisher released a later period
Revised values
6
the same period, a changed figure
Restated series
9
an earlier point in the history changed
Changed sources
14
a different series, provider or link
Normalisation changes
0
scored against fixed bounds instead of own history, or the reverse

An indicator can appear in more than one category. Counts cover scored indicators present in both releases.

Key deteriorations

MetricDomainScoreMovementConfidence
Energy bill affordability pressurenew observation, history restated, source changedLiving Standards66+35 pts0.70
Trust in national governmentnew observation, source changedTrust and Wellbeing78+31 pts0.70
GP access pressure (England)new observation, source changedPublic Service Capacity56+11 pts0.75
Prison capacity utilisation (E&W)new observationRule of Law and Safety61+11 pts0.95
NHS referral-to-treatment waiting list (England)new observation, source changedPublic Service Capacity76+8 pts0.95

Change since the September 2026 release. Only indicators whose inputs changed since that release are listed: a new observation, a revised value, a restated series or a changed source.

Key improvements

MetricDomainScoreMovementConfidence
Chronic lonelinessnew observation, source changedTrust and Wellbeing17−44 pts0.75
Rail cancellations (GB)new observation, source changedInfrastructure24−39 pts0.85
Cancer 62-day treatment standard (England)new observation, source changedPublic Service Capacity32−22 pts0.90
Public sector net investmentvalue revised, history restatedFiscal Resilience16−14 pts0.85
Delayed hospital discharges (England)new observation, source changedPublic Service Capacity57−13 pts0.80

Change since the September 2026 release. Only indicators whose inputs changed since that release are listed: a new observation, a revised value, a restated series or a changed source.

Scores are stress readings out of 100; higher means more stress. Most indicators update annually or quarterly, so a large movement usually marks a new official release entering the index, not a change that happened within the month.

England · measured

11 systems under review, England

Each figure is a stress score from 0 to 100. Higher means more stress, so the most stressed systems sit at the top.

Rows link to the UK-level detail page (per-region detail is a later phase). Scores shown are England-specific.

The tick beside each score is its movement since the September 2026 release.

Weighting

What drives the headline figure

The headline is a weighted reading across all systems. This shows which carry the most weight once their stress score and domain weight are combined.

Population Health10.0 pt
Public Service Capacity7.3 pt
Housing and Household Formation6.8 pt
Childhood and Social Floor6.0 pt
Rule of Law and Safety5.1 pt
Living Standards4.5 pt
Trust and Wellbeing3.4 pt
Work and Productivity3.2 pt
Fiscal Resilience2.0 pt
Environment and Climate1.4 pt
Infrastructure0.9 pt

Historical trajectory

England stress over time

National trajectory

British Resilience Index · Historical Trend

Current

51

Level-only modelled trajectory from verified official statistics; all 11 domains in this view are covered from 2018 (sparser before 2015). Each year's published values are re-scored on today's scale: it shows where stress sat, not a live historical index, and the current headline additionally reflects short-term trend, so it can differ from the final plotted point. COVID-era stress appears mainly from 2021, as the waiting-list, housing and court pressures it triggered entered the annual statistics with a lag.

Concurrent stress

Domains at extreme stress

1 of 11

One domain is scoring 75 or above in this release. This is reported as a signal and does not change the national score. The index measures each domain separately and holds no model of how a failure in one would propagate to another, so it cannot say what concurrent strain costs; it can only say that it is present.

Domains at or above 75

Population Health83

The monthly reading

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A single reading is a snapshot. The value is in the direction of travel. Once a month we send the new national score, what moved, and the sharpest findings from the data, with every figure traceable to its official source.

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Data provenance

71 of 73 indicators are drawn from verified official sources, each labelled on its metric card. The remaining 2 are provisional placeholders, marked as seed where they appear, because no clean official figure is published yet; placeholders are shown for transparency and are excluded from all scoring.