PET near Mossman, QLD

There is no PET scanner in Mossman. The nearest one is at Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department in Cairns, about 65 km away, roughly 72 minutes by road. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray Westcourt in Westcourt (66 km).

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

For scale, 181 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from PET than Mossman 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 Mossman is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department to 31 October 2027 and Queensland X-Ray Westcourt to 30 June 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the two 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.