Nuclear medicine near Charters Towers, QLD

There is no nuclear medicine service in Charters Towers. The closest is The Townsville Hospital/Radiology Dept, 99 km away in Douglas — about 1 hr 38 min in the car. After that, the options are North Queensland X-Ray Services (Aitkenvale/Townsville) in Aitkenvale (102 km) and Queensland X-Ray Mater Pimlico in Pimlico (103 km).

Charters Towers is not without imaging — x-ray, ultrasound and CT are available in town. The town page lists everything Charters Towers has.

To put 99 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 114 are further than Charters Towers 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 Charters Towers is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: The Townsville Hospital/Radiology Dept to 30 September 2026, North Queensland X-Ray Services (Aitkenvale/Townsville) to 30 November 2027 and Queensland X-Ray Mater Pimlico to 30 June 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the four 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.