How long is the wait for a sciatica at Walton Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Walton 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 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical MRI wait is 2 weeks, with 5% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Walton Hospital's full MRI queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Walton Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Walton Hospital.
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Knowsley37w · 8 mi · 10w faster
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral43w · 8 mi · 4w faster
- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Wigan38w · 16 mi · 9w faster
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Cheshire West and Chester42w · 17 mi · 5w faster
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · Bolton47w · 23 mi
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Blackpool47w · 26 mi
Other hospitals run by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- University Hospital Aintree2 mi
- Royal Liverpool University Hospital3 mi
- Broadgreen Hospital4 mi
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