Nuclear medicine in Australia

311 imaging practices in Australia are accredited for nuclear medicine and take referred patients. 112 of them are outside a capital city.

Nuclear medicine uses a small amount of a radioactive tracer, so it needs a licensed department rather than a general imaging room.

Coverage by state: 103 in New South Wales, 82 in Queensland, 63 in Victoria, 26 in Western Australia, 19 in South Australia, 11 in Australian Capital Territory, 5 in Tasmania and 2 in Northern Territory.

Every scan needs a referral, and the practice — not the patient — is what determines whether Medicare eligibility applies. Pick your state below, then your town, for the nearest machine and how far it is.

On our count, 183 towns with imaging of their own have no nuclear medicine at all. Those towns are where the distance matters most, and each has a page giving the nearest machine measured from there rather than from the nearest capital.