Nuclear medicine near Mudgee, NSW

Mudgee does not have a nuclear medicine service. The nearest one is at Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Orange in Orange, about 89 km away, roughly 2 hr 22 min by road. After that, the options are Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Bathurst in Bathurst (92 km) and Dubbo Base Hospital Radiology Department in Dubbo (99 km).

53 practices within 200 km of Mudgee are accredited for nuclear medicine in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

What Mudgee 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 Mudgee has.

To put 89 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 67 are further than Mudgee from a nuclear medicine service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

New South Wales has 103 nuclear medicine practices in total, 42 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Mudgee is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Orange to 31 October 2027, Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Bathurst to 31 May 2027 and Dubbo Base Hospital Radiology Department to 30 September 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.