PET near Inverell, NSW

If you need PET, it will not be in Inverell — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital in Tamworth, about 146 km away, roughly 2 hr 54 min by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre in Coffs Harbour (200 km).

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

For scale, 62 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from PET than Inverell does.

That is a long way to go for a scan, and there is no way to make 146 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, 42 practices are accredited for PET and 19 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — PET is not spread evenly, and Inverell sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital to 30 June 2027 and I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre to 31 August 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. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.