How long is the wait for a sciatica at St Albans City Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs St Albans City 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 West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust the typical MRI wait is 2 weeks, with 7% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See St Albans City Hospital's full MRI queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St Albans City Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to St Albans City Hospital.
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust · Harrow38w · 9 mi · 14w faster
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust · Brent52w · 13 mi
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · Buckinghamshire51w · 14 mi · 1w faster
- Whittington Health NHS Trust · Islington37w · 16 mi · 15w faster
- The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Hillingdon46w · 17 mi · 6w faster
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Camden31w · 18 mi · 21w faster
Other hospitals run by West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Watford General Hospital8 mi
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