PET near Stanthorpe, QLD

There is no PET scanner in Stanthorpe. The nearest one is at Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba in South Toowoomba, about 120 km away, roughly 1 hr 57 min by road. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba in Rockville (124 km) and Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept in Lismore (133 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are 24 PET practices; the closest five are above.

What Stanthorpe 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 Stanthorpe has.

To put 120 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 92 are further than Stanthorpe from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

120 km is a real trip, not a detail. Before you drive it, it is worth asking two things: whether you qualify for your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for exactly this, and whether anything closer runs a visiting service — some regional hospitals do, on a roster we cannot see in the register.

Across Queensland, 37 practices are accredited for PET and 23 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — PET is not spread evenly, and Stanthorpe sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba to 30 June 2027, Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba to 31 July 2027 and Lismore Base Hospital/Medical Imaging Dept to 31 October 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. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.