How long is the wait for a sciatica at Royal United Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Royal United 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 Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust the typical MRI wait is 2 weeks, with 5% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Royal United Hospital's full MRI queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Royal United Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Royal United Hospital.
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust · Bristol, City of31w · 10 mi · 7w faster
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust · Warwick24w · 71 mi · 14w faster
- The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Birmingham34w · 73 mi · 4w faster
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · Nuneaton and Bedworth29w · 87 mi · 9w faster
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Camden31w · 97 mi · 7w faster
- Whittington Health NHS Trust · Islington37w · 98 mi · 1w faster
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