PET near Moruya, NSW

If you need PET, it will not be in Moruya — nothing here is accredited for it. The closest is Canberra Imaging Group Garran, 108 km away in Garran — about 2 hr 25 min in the car. After that, the options are The Canberra Hospital Medical Imaging in Garran (109 km) and Atlas Medical Imaging in Deakin (111 km).

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

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

To put 108 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 112 are further than Moruya from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

That is a long way to go for a scan, and there is no way to make 108 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.

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 Moruya is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Canberra Imaging Group Garran to 31 May 2027, The Canberra Hospital Medical Imaging to 31 May 2027 and Atlas Medical Imaging to 31 May 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.