PET near Kempsey, NSW

Kempsey does not have a PET scanner. The nearest one is at Lumus Imaging Highfields in Port Macquarie, about 42 km away, roughly 42 minutes by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre in Coffs Harbour (88 km) and Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital in Tamworth (182 km).

What Kempsey 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 Kempsey has.

To put 42 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 296 are further than Kempsey 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 Kempsey is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Lumus Imaging Highfields to 31 March 2027, I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre to 31 August 2027 and Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital to 30 June 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the three 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.