MRI near Parkes, NSW

Parkes does not have an MRI scanner. The nearest one is at Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Orange in Orange, about 87 km away, roughly 82 minutes by road. After that, the options are Lumus Imaging Bloomfield in Orange (87 km) and Western NSW Medical Imaging Services - Orange in Bloomfield (88 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are ten MRI practices; the closest five are above.

All of them are on the Australian Government's list of Medicare-eligible MRI locations (last updated 17 February 2026), so a Medicare rebate is possible for scans done there. Whether your scan attracts one depends on the item your referral asks for and on who wrote it — GPs can request a limited set of MRI items and specialists can request more.

Parkes is not without imaging — x-ray, ultrasound and CT are available in town. The town page lists everything Parkes has.

For scale, 51 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Parkes 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 Parkes sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Orange to 31 October 2027, Lumus Imaging Bloomfield to 31 July 2027 and Western NSW Medical Imaging Services - Orange to 31 August 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.