MRI near Bushland Beach, QLD

No practice in Bushland Beach is accredited for MRI. The nearest one is at Queensland X-Ray Domain Central in Garbutt, about 13 km away, roughly 18 minutes by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Thuringowa in Thuringowa Central (15 km) and North Queensland X-Ray Services (Aitkenvale/Townsville) in Aitkenvale (15 km).

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

All of them are on the Australian Government's list of Medicare-eligible MRI locations (last updated 17 February 2026), so a Medicare rebate is possible for scans done there. Whether your scan attracts one depends on the item your referral asks for and on who wrote it — GPs can request a limited set of MRI items and specialists can request more.

Within 10 km of Bushland Beach, accredited imaging covers x-ray, ultrasound and CT. If your referral is for one of those, see everything Bushland Beach has for the nearby options and their exact addresses.

For scale, 347 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from MRI than Bushland Beach does.

Queensland has 140 MRI practices in total, 71 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Bushland Beach is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Queensland X-Ray Domain Central to 31 May 2027, I-MED Radiology Thuringowa to 30 November 2027 and North Queensland X-Ray Services (Aitkenvale/Townsville) to 30 November 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 three list 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.