MRI near Murwillumbah, NSW

Murwillumbah does not have an MRI scanner. The closest is Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen, 18 km away in Cudgen — about 23 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Lumus Imaging Tweed Heads South in Tweed Heads South (20 km) and South Coast Radiology John Flynn Hospital in Tugun (21 km).

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

Lumus Imaging Tweed Heads South, South Coast Radiology John Flynn Hospital and Lumus Imaging Robina Home Hub are on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list (last updated 17 February 2026); Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen and Queensland X-Ray Gold Coast Airport Central are accredited for MRI but not on that list, so a scan there may not attract a rebate.

Locally, Murwillumbah is covered for x-ray, ultrasound and CT. A referral for one of those can be done here: everything Murwillumbah has.

For scale, 328 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Murwillumbah does.

Across New South Wales, 204 practices are accredited for MRI and 84 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — MRI is not spread evenly, and Murwillumbah sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen to 31 October 2027, Lumus Imaging Tweed Heads South to 30 June 2027 and South Coast Radiology John Flynn Hospital to 30 November 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 two list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.