PET near Scone, NSW

No practice in Scone is accredited for PET. The nearest one is at PRP Diagnostic Imaging East Maitland in East Maitland, about 103 km away, roughly 1 hr 55 min by road. After that, the options are Hunter Imaging Metford in Metford (105 km) and Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital in Tamworth (109 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are 22 PET practices; the closest five are above.

Locally, Scone is covered for ultrasound and CT. A referral for one of those can be done here: everything Scone has.

To put 103 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 122 are further than Scone from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

103 km is a real trip, not a detail. Before you drive it, it is worth asking two things: whether you qualify for your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for exactly this, and whether anything closer runs a visiting service — some regional hospitals do, on a roster we cannot see in the register.

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 Scone is where it is.

Accreditation windows: PRP Diagnostic Imaging East Maitland to 30 November 2027, Hunter Imaging Metford to 31 July 2027 and Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital to 30 June 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 two list 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.