MRI near Tanilba Bay, NSW

Tanilba Bay does not have an MRI scanner. The closest is PRP Diagnostic Imaging Salamander Bay, 10 km away in Salamander Bay. After that, the options are Hunter Imaging Salamander Bay in Salamander Bay (10 km) and Hunter Imaging Newcastle in Newcastle (29 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are 149 MRI practices; the closest five are above.

PRP Diagnostic Imaging Salamander Bay, Hunter Imaging Salamander Bay and Hunter New England Imaging - Calvary Mater Newcastle (Waratah) are on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list (last updated 17 February 2026); Hunter Imaging Newcastle and Clarity Imaging are accredited for MRI but not on that list, so a scan there may not attract a rebate.

Tanilba Bay has no accredited imaging practice of its own that we can see in the register, so any scan means travelling. The closest imaging of any kind is PRP Diagnostic Imaging Salamander Bay in Salamander Bay, 10 km away.

For scale, 488 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Tanilba Bay 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 Tanilba Bay sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: PRP Diagnostic Imaging Salamander Bay to 31 July 2027, Hunter Imaging Salamander Bay to 30 November 2026 and Hunter Imaging Newcastle 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 two list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.