Nuclear medicine near Walcha, NSW

There is no nuclear medicine service in Walcha. The nearest one is at I-MED Radiology Armidale in Armidale, about 53 km away, roughly 55 minutes by road. After that, the options are Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) in Tamworth (65 km) and Lumus Imaging Taree Nuclear Medicine in Taree (128 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are ten nuclear medicine practices; the closest five are above.

Locally, Walcha is covered for x-ray. A referral for that can be done here: everything Walcha has.

For scale, 126 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from nuclear medicine than Walcha does.

New South Wales has 103 nuclear medicine practices in total, 42 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Walcha is where it is.

Accreditation windows: I-MED Radiology Armidale to 31 July 2027, Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) to 31 August 2027 and Lumus Imaging Taree Nuclear Medicine to 31 August 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 four list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.