Nuclear medicine near Moranbah, QLD

If you need nuclear medicine, it will not be in Moranbah — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Mackay Radiology in North Mackay, about 151 km away, roughly 2 hr 32 min by road. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray Pty Ltd in North Mackay (151 km) and Qscan Mackay in North Mackay (151 km).

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

To put 151 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 79 are further than Moranbah from a nuclear medicine service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

A 151 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 Moranbah — rosters like that do not appear in the accreditation register.

Queensland has 82 nuclear medicine practices in total, 45 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Moranbah is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Mackay Radiology to 30 November 2027, Queensland X-Ray Pty Ltd to 30 June 2027 and Qscan Mackay to 31 October 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the three practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and none publishes opening hours we could confirm. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.