How long is the wait for a sciatica at Freeman Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Freeman Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.
Updated June 2026 · (Referral to Treatment — the NHS wait-time framework)
This is how long 8 in 10 patients wait for the whole Trauma & Orthopaedics specialty at this trust, from GP referral to the start of treatment — the NHS does not publish a wait for sciatica on its own.
Before treatment: the scan wait too
An MRI scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical MRI wait is 3 weeks, with 26% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Freeman Hospital's full MRI queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Freeman Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Freeman Hospital.
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · North Tyneside36w · 5 mi · 10w faster
- South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust · Sunderland43w · 10 mi · 3w faster
- North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust · Hartlepool31w · 25 mi · 15w faster
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Middlesbrough32w · 35 mi · 14w faster
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford35w · 78 mi · 11w faster
- Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust · Wakefield44w · 91 mi · 2w faster
Other hospitals run by The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- The Royal Victoria Infirmary2 mi
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