PET near Bega, NSW

No practice in Bega is accredited for PET. The closest is Canberra Imaging Group Garran, 162 km away in Garran — about 2 hr 58 min in the car. After that, the options are The Canberra Hospital Medical Imaging in Garran (162 km) and Atlas Medical Imaging in Deakin (165 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are six PET practices; the closest five are above.

What Bega 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 Bega has.

For scale, 50 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from PET than Bega does.

A 162 km trip is a day out of your life, not an errand. Ask your referring doctor about the patient travel assistance scheme in your state, and ask the nearest hospital whether a visiting service ever covers Bega — rosters like that do not appear in the accreditation register.

Across New South Wales, 42 practices are accredited for PET and 19 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — PET is not spread evenly, and Bega sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Canberra Imaging Group Garran to 31 May 2027, The Canberra Hospital Medical Imaging to 31 May 2027 and Atlas 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. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.