PET near Miles, QLD

Miles does not have a PET scanner. The closest is Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba, 199 km away in Rockville — about 2 hr 46 min in the car. It is the only PET service within 200 km of Miles.

Miles 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, 122 km away.

For scale, 67 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from PET than Miles does.

There is no way around the distance: 199 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 Miles visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

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 Miles is where it is.

Accreditation windows: Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba to 31 July 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the one practice 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.