PET near Palmers Island, NSW

Palmers Island does not have a PET scanner. The nearest one is at Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept in Lismore, about 68 km away. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre in Coffs Harbour (101 km) and Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen in Cudgen (131 km).

There are eleven PET practices within 200 km of Palmers Island altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

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

For scale, 201 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from PET than Palmers Island 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 Palmers Island is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept to 31 October 2027, I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre to 31 August 2027 and Tweed Valley Hospital — Cudgen to 31 October 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.