PET near Murwillumbah, NSW

Murwillumbah has no PET of its own. The nearest one is at Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen in Cudgen, about 18 km away, roughly 23 minutes by road. After that, the options are South Coast Radiology John Flynn Hospital in Tugun (21 km) and Lumus Imaging Robina Home Hub in Robina (27 km).

There are 29 PET practices within 200 km of Murwillumbah altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

What Murwillumbah 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 Murwillumbah has.

For scale, 488 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from PET than Murwillumbah does.

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 Murwillumbah is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen to 31 October 2027, South Coast Radiology John Flynn Hospital to 30 November 2027 and Lumus Imaging Robina Home Hub 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.