PET near Young, NSW

Young has no PET of its own. The nearest one is at I-MED Radiology Wagga Wagga in Wagga Wagga, about 125 km away, roughly 2 hr 03 min by road. After that, the options are Qscan University of Canberra (PET-CT) in Bruce (125 km) and Calvary Bruce Private Hospital in Bruce (127 km).

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

Locally, Young is covered for x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI. A referral for one of those can be done here: everything Young has.

To put 125 km in context: of the 1544 NSW towns we hold, 90 are further than Young from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

125 km is a real trip, not a detail. Before you drive it, it is worth asking two things: whether you qualify for your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for exactly this, and whether anything closer runs a visiting service — some regional hospitals do, on a roster we cannot see in the register.

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 Young sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: I-MED Radiology Wagga Wagga to 31 July 2027, Qscan University of Canberra (PET-CT) to 30 November 2027 and Calvary Bruce Private Hospital to 30 June 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 one lists opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.