PET near Walcha, NSW

If you need PET, it will not be in Walcha — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital in Tamworth, about 64 km away, roughly 76 minutes by road. After that, the options are Lumus Imaging Highfields in Port Macquarie (133 km) and I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre in Coffs Harbour (162 km).

What Walcha does have locally is x-ray. If your referral is for that, you do not need to leave town — see everything Walcha has.

For scale, 212 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from PET than Walcha does.

Across New South Wales, 42 practices are accredited for PET and 19 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — PET is not spread evenly, and Walcha sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Hunter New England Imaging - Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital to 30 June 2027, Lumus Imaging Highfields to 31 March 2027 and I-MED Radiology Coffs Harbour Specialist Medical Centre 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 three 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.