MRI near Gunnedah, NSW

There is no MRI scanner in Gunnedah. The nearest one is at Alpenglow Tamworth Diagnostic Imaging in Tamworth, about 64 km away, roughly 63 minutes by road. After that, the options are Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital in Tamworth (64 km) and Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) in Tamworth (65 km).

Six practices within 200 km of Gunnedah are accredited for MRI in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

All of them are on the Australian Government's list of Medicare-eligible MRI locations (last updated 17 February 2026), so a Medicare rebate is possible for scans done there. Whether your scan attracts one depends on the item your referral asks for and on who wrote it — GPs can request a limited set of MRI items and specialists can request more.

Gunnedah is not without imaging — x-ray, ultrasound and CT are available in town. The town page lists everything Gunnedah has.

For scale, 80 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Gunnedah does.

New South Wales has 204 MRI practices in total, 84 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Gunnedah is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Alpenglow Tamworth Diagnostic Imaging to 31 October 2027, Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital to 30 June 2027 and Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) to 31 August 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 two list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.