CT near Hope Vale, QLD

Hope Vale has no CT of its own. The closest is North Queensland X-Ray Services (Smithfield,Cairns), 181 km away in Smithfield. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray Smithfield in Smithfield (183 km) and Mareeba Hospital Medical Imaging in Mareeba (191 km).

Eleven practices within 200 km of Hope Vale are accredited for CT in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

Locally, Hope Vale is covered for x-ray and ultrasound. A referral for one of those can be done here: everything Hope Vale has.

For scale, 16 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from CT than Hope Vale does.

There is no way around the distance: 181 km each way. Before you commit to it, two things are worth a phone call — your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for people in exactly this position, and whether any service closer to Hope Vale visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

Queensland has 308 CT practices in total, 170 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Hope Vale is where it is.

Accreditation windows: North Queensland X-Ray Services (Smithfield,Cairns) to 31 May 2027, Queensland X-Ray Smithfield to 31 October 2027 and Mareeba Hospital Medical Imaging 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 one lists opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.