Nuclear medicine near Wee Waa, NSW

There is no nuclear medicine service in Wee Waa. The nearest one is at Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) in Tamworth, about 171 km away, roughly 2 hr 49 min by road. It is the only nuclear medicine service within 200 km of Wee Waa.

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

For scale, 20 of the 1544 towns we hold in NSW sit further from nuclear medicine than Wee Waa does.

There is no way around the distance: 171 km each way. Before you commit to it, two things are worth a phone call — your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for people in exactly this position, and whether any service closer to Wee Waa visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

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 Wee Waa is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Castlereagh Imaging Tamworth (now Hunter Imaging, Sonic Healthcare) to 31 August 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the one practice listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and none publishes opening hours we could confirm. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.