Nuclear medicine near Forster, NSW

Forster does not have a nuclear medicine service. The nearest one is at Lumus Imaging Taree Nuclear Medicine in Taree, about 34 km away, roughly 40 minutes by road. After that, the options are Lumus Imaging Highfields in Port Macquarie (88 km) and I-MED Radiology Port Macquarie in Port Macquarie (88 km).

There are 21 nuclear medicine practices within 200 km of Forster altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

What Forster 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 Forster has.

For scale, 236 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from nuclear medicine than Forster does.

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 Forster is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Lumus Imaging Taree Nuclear Medicine to 31 August 2027, Lumus Imaging Highfields to 31 March 2027 and I-MED Radiology Port Macquarie to 30 November 2026. 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 four list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.