The Royal Children'S Hospital, Parkville

You will find The Royal Children'S Hospital at Medical Imaging Department, Lg 50 Flemington Rd, Parkville VIC 3052. The register records it under practice number 1639, accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine and PET, with the current accreditation running from 28 May 2003 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. 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 03 9345 5255 and their website. These contact details come from healthdirect's directory rather than the practice itself, so confirm them on the call.

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

Vision Radiology North Melbourne in North Melbourne is the closest alternative, 0 km from here. Pauline Gandel Women's Imaging Centre, Royal Women's Hospital in Parkville is the next closest at 1 km. The Royal Melbourne Hospital - Medical Imaging is 1 km away in Parkville. 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from the Medicare LSPN register and healthdirect's directory, plus the practice's own website — if any of it is out of date, the practice is right and we are wrong.

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