PET near Armidale, NSW

Armidale does not have a PET scanner. The nearest one is at Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital in Tamworth, about 95 km away, roughly 1 hr 34 min by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre in Coffs Harbour (138 km) and Lumus Imaging Highfields in Port Macquarie (157 km).

What Armidale does have locally is x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI and nuclear medicine. If your referral is for one of those, you do not need to leave town — see everything Armidale has.

To put 95 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 137 are further than Armidale from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

New South Wales has 42 PET practices in total, 19 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Armidale is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital to 30 June 2027, I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre to 31 August 2027 and Lumus Imaging Highfields to 31 March 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the three practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and two list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.