PET in Queensland

Queensland has 37 practices accredited for PET, spread over 31 towns and suburbs.

Outside the capital there are 23. Coverage outside the capital is comparatively good for PET in Queensland.

A PET scan is the scarcest scan in Australia — the scanners sit almost entirely in capital cities and a handful of large regional hospitals.

50 towns in Queensland have imaging of their own but no PET. Each of those has a page giving the nearest machine and the distance from that town — that is the number that decides whether the scan happens.

The towns and suburbs with PET include Southport, Birtinya, Noosaville, Cairns, Bundaberg, Auchenflower, Ipswich and Buderim.

The heaviest concentrations are Southport (five practices), Birtinya (two practices), Noosaville (two practices), Cairns (one practice) and Bundaberg (one practice). Outside those, most towns with PET have exactly one practice, which is worth knowing when you are weighing a wait against a drive.

healthdirect records one practice in Queensland with PET as bulk-billing. That is a provider self-report, not a promise, and the absence of a note against the others means we hold no billing information — not that they charge.

There are no prices on this site, for PET or anything else. What we do hold is the location, the accreditation and the distance.