Nuclear medicine near Coonamble, NSW

Coonamble has no nuclear medicine of its own. The nearest one is at Dubbo Base Hospital Radiology Department in Dubbo, about 145 km away, roughly 2 hr 01 min by road. After that, the options are Lumus Imaging Dubbo in Dubbo (145 km) and PRP Diagnostic Imaging Dubbo in Dubbo (145 km).

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

To put 145 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 25 are further than Coonamble from a nuclear medicine service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

There is no way around the distance: 145 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 Coonamble visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

New South Wales has 103 nuclear medicine practices in total, 42 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Coonamble is where it is.

Accreditation windows: Dubbo Base Hospital Radiology Department to 30 September 2027, Lumus Imaging Dubbo to 30 November 2026 and PRP Diagnostic Imaging Dubbo to 31 May 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the three 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.