Nuclear medicine near Burrum Heads, QLD

There is no nuclear medicine service in Burrum Heads. The closest is I-MED Radiology - Hervey Bay, 25 km away in Urraween — about 28 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Wide Bay Nuclear Medicine - Hervey Bay in Pialba (25 km) and I-MED Radiology Bundaberg in Bundaberg (44 km).

15 practices within 200 km of Burrum Heads are accredited for nuclear medicine in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

Burrum Heads 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 Hervey Bay Hospital Medical Imaging in Pialba, 24 km away.

To put 25 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 287 are further than Burrum Heads from a nuclear medicine service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

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 Burrum Heads is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: I-MED Radiology - Hervey Bay to 31 May 2027, Wide Bay Nuclear Medicine - Hervey Bay to 30 June 2027 and I-MED Radiology Bundaberg 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 two list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.