MRI near Thirroul, NSW

Thirroul has no MRI of its own. The nearest one is at Illawarra Radiology Group Wollongong in Wollongong, about 12 km away, roughly 15 minutes by road. After that, the options are Wollongong Hospital in Wollongong (13 km) and Illawarra Medical Imaging (Vision XRAY Group) in Wollongong (13 km).

There are 168 MRI practices within 200 km of Thirroul altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

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.

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

For scale, 443 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Thirroul does.

New South Wales has 204 MRI practices in total, 84 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Thirroul is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Illawarra Radiology Group Wollongong to 30 June 2027, Wollongong Hospital to 30 September 2027 and Illawarra Medical Imaging (Vision XRAY Group) to 30 November 2026. 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.