PET near Nelson Bay, NSW

Nelson Bay does not have a PET scanner. The closest is Hunter New England Imaging - Calvary Mater Newcastle (Waratah), 44 km away in Waratah — about 51 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Hunter Imaging New Lambton Heights in New Lambton (48 km) and Hunter Imaging Metford in Metford (51 km).

There are 30 PET practices within 200 km of Nelson Bay altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

Within 10 km of Nelson Bay, accredited imaging covers x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI. If your referral is for one of those, see everything Nelson Bay has for the nearby options and their exact addresses.

For scale, 286 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from PET than Nelson Bay does.

Across New South Wales, 42 practices are accredited for PET and 19 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — PET is not spread evenly, and Nelson Bay sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: Hunter New England Imaging - Calvary Mater Newcastle (Waratah) to 31 October 2027, Hunter Imaging New Lambton Heights to 31 October 2027 and Hunter Imaging Metford to 31 July 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 three list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.