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PET near Parkes, NSW
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Nearest PET services to Parkes
There is no PET service in Parkes. The nearest is Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Orange in Orange, about 87 km away.
This page also covers Forbes, whose nearest PET options are the same as Parkes's.
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1Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Orange131-135 Summer St, Orange, NSW, 280087 km away, about 82 minutes by roadOpening hours not published — call before travelling.
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2Dubbo Health ServiceWestern Cancer Cntr Dubbo, 170 Myall St, Dubbo, NSW, 2830108 km away, about 1 hr 33 min by roadOpening hours not published — call before travelling.
About these results
No practice in Parkes is accredited for PET. The closest is Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Orange, 87 km away in Orange — about 82 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Dubbo Health Service in Dubbo (108 km).
What Parkes 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 Parkes has.
To put 87 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 152 are further than Parkes from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.
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 Parkes sits in one of the gaps.
Current Medicare accreditation runs: Prp Diagnostic Imaging-Orange to 31 October 2027 and Dubbo Health Service to 30 November 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 none publishes opening hours we could confirm. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.
scanfinder shows you where imaging is available. Your doctor decides which scan you need — you'll need a referral for all of these.
About PET. A PET scan is the scarcest scan in Australia — the scanners sit almost entirely in capital cities and a handful of large regional hospitals. Accreditation means a practice meets the Medicare requirements for it — it is not a ranking, and we publish no ratings. Distances are straight-line from the centre of the town, so the drive is a little longer.
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