Hnei-The New Maitland Hospital, Metford

Hnei-The New Maitland Hospital is an accredited imaging practice at Maitland Hospital, 51 Metford Rd, Metford NSW 2323. Its Medicare Location Specific Practice Number is 10644, and the register lists it as accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI, with the current accreditation running from 17 August 2021 to 30 November 2026.

Medicare-eligible MRI. This practice appears on the Australian Government's list of Medicare-eligible MRI locations (list last updated 17 February 2026). That means a Medicare rebate is possible for an MRI done here. It does not mean every MRI here is rebated: that turns on the item your referral asks for and on what this practice charges. Ask them when you book.

Phone 02 4087 1400 and their website. These contact details come from healthdirect's directory rather than the practice itself, so confirm them on the call.

It is one of two accredited practices in Metford, so it is worth ringing more than one if the wait matters to you.

This practice is not accredited for nuclear medicine and PET. If your referral is for one of those, nuclear medicine and PET are both at Hunter Imaging Metford in Metford, about 0 km away.

Hunter Imaging Metford in Metford is the closest alternative, 0 km from here. Hunter Imaging Group — East Maitland in East Maitland is the next closest at 1 km. Hunter Imaging East Maitland is 1 km away in Ashtonfield. Unless your referral says otherwise you can usually take it wherever suits you.

This page is assembled from the Medicare LSPN register and healthdirect's directory, plus the practice's own website — if any of it is out of date, the practice is right and we are wrong.

An MRI uses a magnetic field rather than x-rays, and the machines are expensive, so far fewer places have one.