CT near Cooktown, QLD

There is no CT scanner in Cooktown. The nearest one is at North Queensland X-Ray Services (Smithfield,Cairns) in Smithfield, about 158 km away, roughly 4 hr 08 min by road. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray Smithfield in Smithfield (160 km) and Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department in Cairns (170 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are twelve CT practices; the closest five are above.

What Cooktown does have locally is x-ray and ultrasound. If your referral is for one of those, you do not need to leave town — see everything Cooktown has.

For scale, 23 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from CT than Cooktown does.

A 158 km trip is a day out of your life, not an errand. Ask your referring doctor about the patient travel assistance scheme in your state, and ask the nearest hospital whether a visiting service ever covers Cooktown — rosters like that do not appear in the accreditation register.

Across Queensland, 308 practices are accredited for CT and 170 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — CT is not spread evenly, and Cooktown sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: North Queensland X-Ray Services (Smithfield,Cairns) to 31 May 2027, Queensland X-Ray Smithfield to 31 October 2027 and Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department to 31 October 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. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.