PET near Ballina, NSW

If you need PET, it will not be in Ballina — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept in Lismore, about 27 km away, roughly 33 minutes by road. After that, the options are Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen in Cudgen (67 km) and South Coast Radiology John Flynn Hospital in Tugun (79 km).

23 practices within 200 km of Ballina are accredited for PET in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

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, 386 are further than Ballina 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 Ballina is where it is.

Accreditation windows: Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept to 31 October 2027, Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen to 31 October 2027 and South Coast Radiology John Flynn Hospital to 30 November 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. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.