Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural R…

Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital runs imaging services from Tamworth Rural Referral Hospi, 31 Dean St, Tamworth NSW 2340. The register records it under practice number 720, accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI and PET. That accreditation has run since 21 May 2003 and is current to 30 June 2027.

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. Whether your scan attracts one depends on the MBS item, who wrote your referral, and the practice's own billing policy — ask when you book.

Phone 02 6767 7500 and their website. We take contact details from the practice's own listings where we can.

Tamworth has five accredited practices in total — this is one of them, and a referral is generally not tied to any of them.

The register does not cover it for nuclear medicine, so for those the nearest nuclear medicine is Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) in Tamworth, about 2 km away.

If this one does not suit, Hunter Imaging Tamworth is 0 km away in Tamworth. Alpenglow Tamworth Diagnostic Imaging in Tamworth is the next closest at 1 km. Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) is 2 km away in Tamworth. A referral is not usually tied to a single practice — ask if you would rather go elsewhere.

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assembled from the Medicare LSPN register and a hand-verified check, plus the practice's own website — if any of it is out of date, the practice is right and we are wrong.

A PET scan is the scarcest scan in Australia — the scanners sit almost entirely in capital cities and a handful of large regional hospitals.