PET near Tara, QLD

If you need PET, it will not be in Tara — nothing here is accredited for it. The closest is Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba, 149 km away in Rockville — about 2 hr 13 min in the car. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba in South Toowoomba (151 km).

Tara 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, 81 km away.

To put 149 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 81 are further than Tara from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

149 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 Tara sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: Queensland X-Ray St Andrew's Hospital Toowoomba to 31 July 2027 and Queensland X-Ray South Toowoomba 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 two list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.