Nuclear medicine near Narrabri, NSW

No practice in Narrabri is accredited for nuclear medicine. The nearest one is at Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) in Tamworth, about 138 km away, roughly 2 hr 15 min by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Armidale in Armidale (181 km).

What Narrabri 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 Narrabri has.

For scale, 28 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from nuclear medicine than Narrabri does.

A 138 km trip is a day out of your life, not an errand. Ask your referring doctor about the patient travel assistance scheme in your state, and ask the nearest hospital whether a visiting service ever covers Narrabri — rosters like that do not appear in the accreditation register.

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 Narrabri is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) to 31 August 2027 and I-MED Radiology Armidale to 31 July 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the two 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.