Nuclear medicine near Blackwater, QLD

Blackwater does not have a nuclear medicine service. The nearest one is at Central Queensland Radiology Rockhampton Hospital in Rockhampton, about 166 km away, roughly 2 hr 29 min by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Rockhampton in The Range (166 km).

Blackwater has no accredited imaging practice of its own that we can see in the register, so any scan means travelling. The closest imaging of any kind is Central Qld Medical Imaging - Emerald in Emerald, 73 km away.

To put 166 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 75 are further than Blackwater from a nuclear medicine service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

166 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.

Queensland has 82 nuclear medicine practices in total, 45 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Blackwater is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Central Queensland Radiology Rockhampton Hospital to 31 May 2027 and I-MED Radiology Rockhampton to 30 June 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the two practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and one lists 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.