MRI near Ingham, QLD

Ingham has no MRI of its own. The nearest one is at Queensland X-Ray Domain Central in Garbutt, about 94 km away, roughly 85 minutes by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Thuringowa in Thuringowa Central (96 km) and North Queensland X-Ray Services (Aitkenvale/Townsville) in Aitkenvale (97 km).

There are 15 MRI practices within 200 km of Ingham altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

All of them are on the Australian Government's list of Medicare-eligible MRI locations (last updated 17 February 2026), so a Medicare rebate is possible for scans done there. Whether your scan attracts one depends on the item your referral asks for and on who wrote it — GPs can request a limited set of MRI items and specialists can request more.

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

For scale, 87 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from MRI than Ingham does.

Queensland has 140 MRI practices in total, 71 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Ingham is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Queensland X-Ray Domain Central to 31 May 2027, I-MED Radiology Thuringowa to 30 November 2027 and North Queensland X-Ray Services (Aitkenvale/Townsville) 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 three 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.