PET near Crows Nest, QLD

Crows Nest has no PET of its own. The nearest one is at Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba in Rockville, about 33 km away, roughly 41 minutes by road. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba in South Toowoomba (36 km) and I-MED Radiology Ipswich Multiplex in Ipswich (81 km).

30 practices within 200 km of Crows Nest are accredited for PET in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

Crows Nest 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 Queensland X-Ray Highfields in Highfields, 24 km away.

For scale, 273 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from PET than Crows Nest does.

Queensland has 37 PET practices in total, 23 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Crows Nest is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba to 31 July 2027, Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba to 30 June 2027 and I-MED Radiology Ipswich Multiplex 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 five 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.