PET near Coonabarabran, NSW

There is no PET scanner in Coonabarabran. The closest is Dubbo Health Service, 124 km away in Dubbo — about 1 hr 50 min in the car. After that, the options are Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital in Tamworth (158 km).

Locally, Coonabarabran is covered for x-ray. A referral for that can be done here: everything Coonabarabran has.

For scale, 91 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from PET than Coonabarabran does.

There is no way around the distance: 124 km each way. Before you commit to it, two things are worth a phone call — your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for people in exactly this position, and whether any service closer to Coonabarabran visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

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 Coonabarabran sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: Dubbo Health Service to 30 November 2027 and Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital to 30 June 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the two 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.