PET near Batemans Bay, NSW

Batemans Bay has no PET of its own. The closest is South East Radiology Nowra, 100 km away in Nowra — about 1 hr 46 min in the car. After that, the options are Canberra Imaging Group Garran in Garran (105 km) and The Canberra Hospital Medical Imaging in Garran (105 km).

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

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

To put 100 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 128 are further than Batemans Bay from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

That is a long way to go for a scan, and there is no way to make 100 km shorter. Two things are worth knowing: every state and territory runs a patient travel assistance scheme for people who have to travel for care, and the local health service or your referring doctor can tell you whether you qualify. Some regional hospitals also run visiting services on a roster, which the accreditation register cannot show us — worth one phone call before you plan the trip.

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 Batemans Bay is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: South East Radiology Nowra to 30 June 2027, Canberra Imaging Group Garran to 31 May 2027 and The Canberra Hospital Medical Imaging to 31 May 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 one lists opening hours. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.