Nuclear medicine near Hay, NSW

If you need nuclear medicine, it will not be in Hay — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Griffith Base Hospital/Radiology Dept in Griffith, about 113 km away, roughly 1 hr 45 min by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Echuca in Echuca (181 km).

Hay is not without imaging — x-ray is available in town. The town page lists everything Hay has.

For scale, 44 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from nuclear medicine than Hay does.

That is a long way to go for a scan, and there is no way to make 113 km shorter. Two things are worth knowing: every state and territory runs a patient travel assistance scheme for people who have to travel for care, and the local health service or your referring doctor can tell you whether you qualify. Some regional hospitals also run visiting services on a roster, which the accreditation register cannot show us — worth one phone call before you plan the trip.

Across New South Wales, 103 practices are accredited for nuclear medicine and 42 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — nuclear medicine is not spread evenly, and Hay sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: Griffith Base Hospital/Radiology Dept to 31 August 2027 and I-MED Radiology Echuca to 31 October 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 one lists opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.