PET near Chinchilla, QLD

Chinchilla has no PET of its own. The closest is Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba, 157 km away in Rockville — about 2 hr 13 min in the car. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba in South Toowoomba (160 km).

Chinchilla 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 Alpenglow Dalby Diagnostic Imaging in Dalby, 80 km away.

To put 157 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 77 are further than Chinchilla from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

That is a long way to go for a scan, and there is no way to make 157 km shorter. Two things are worth knowing: every state and territory runs a patient travel assistance scheme for people who have to travel for care, and the local health service or your referring doctor can tell you whether you qualify. Some regional hospitals also run visiting services on a roster, which the accreditation register cannot show us — worth one phone call before you plan the trip.

Across Queensland, 37 practices are accredited for PET and 23 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — PET is not spread evenly, and Chinchilla sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba to 31 July 2027 and Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba 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 two list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.