NHS waiting times · Warwick · Trauma & Orthopaedics

How long is the wait for a sciatica at Warwick Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Warwick Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

24weeks

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

3weekstypical MRI wait · June 2026

An MRI scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust the typical MRI wait is 3 weeks, with 2% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Warwick Hospital's full MRI queue and faster scan alternatives →

Other hospitals run by South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.

  • Leamington Spa Hospital2 mi
  • Stratford Hospital9 mi

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