PET near Grafton, NSW

Grafton does not have a PET scanner. The nearest one is at I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre in Coffs Harbour, about 72 km away, roughly 71 minutes by road. After that, the options are Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept in Lismore (103 km) and Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen in Cudgen (169 km).

There are eleven PET practices within 200 km of Grafton altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

What Grafton 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 Grafton has.

To put 72 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 189 are further than Grafton from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

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 Grafton is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre to 31 August 2027, Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept to 31 October 2027 and Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen to 31 October 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.