MRI near Uralla, NSW

Uralla has no MRI of its own. The closest is I-MED Radiology Armidale, 21 km away in Armidale — about 21 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital in Tamworth (73 km) and Alpenglow Tamworth Diagnostic Imaging in Tamworth (74 km).

15 practices within 200 km of Uralla are accredited for MRI in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

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.

Uralla 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 Armidale Ultrasound in Armidale, 21 km away.

For scale, 286 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from MRI than Uralla 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 Uralla sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: I-MED Radiology Armidale to 31 July 2027, Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital to 30 June 2027 and Alpenglow Tamworth Diagnostic Imaging to 31 October 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.