MRI near Trinity Beach, QLD

There is no MRI scanner in Trinity Beach. The closest is Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department, 16 km away in Cairns — about 22 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray Cairns Private Hospital in Cairns City (16 km) and Queensland X-Ray 189 Lake Street in Cairns (16 km).

Seven practices within 200 km of Trinity Beach are accredited for MRI in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

All of them are on the Australian Government's list of Medicare-eligible MRI locations (last updated 17 February 2026), so a Medicare rebate is possible for scans done there. Whether your scan attracts one depends on the item your referral asks for and on who wrote it — GPs can request a limited set of MRI items and specialists can request more.

Within 10 km of Trinity Beach, accredited imaging covers x-ray, ultrasound and CT. If your referral is for one of those, see everything Trinity Beach has for the nearby options and their exact addresses.

For scale, 305 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from MRI than Trinity Beach does.

Queensland has 140 MRI practices in total, 71 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Trinity Beach is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department to 31 October 2027, Queensland X-Ray Cairns Private Hospital to 31 October 2026 and Queensland X-Ray 189 Lake Street to 31 August 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.