Nuclear medicine near Ballina, NSW

If you need nuclear medicine, it will not be in Ballina — nothing here is accredited for it. The closest is Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept, 27 km away in Lismore — about 33 minutes in the car. After that, the options are North Coast Radiology Lismore (St Vincent's Hospital) in Lismore (27 km) and Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen in Cudgen (67 km).

There are 52 nuclear medicine practices within 200 km of Ballina altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

Locally, Ballina is covered for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI. A referral for one of those can be done here: everything Ballina has.

To put 27 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 286 are further than Ballina from a nuclear medicine service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

Across New South Wales, 103 practices are accredited for nuclear medicine and 42 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — nuclear medicine is not spread evenly, and Ballina sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept to 31 October 2027, North Coast Radiology Lismore (St Vincent's Hospital) to 30 June 2027 and Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen to 31 October 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the five practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and none publishes opening hours we could confirm. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.