PET near Tully, QLD

There is no PET scanner in Tully. The nearest one is at Queensland X-Ray Westcourt in Westcourt, about 112 km away, roughly 1 hr 56 min by road. After that, the options are Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department in Cairns (115 km) and Queensland X-Ray Mater Hyde Park in Hyde Park (176 km).

Tully is not without imaging — x-ray and ultrasound are available in town. The town page lists everything Tully has.

For scale, 98 of the 1062 towns we hold in QLD sit further from PET than Tully does.

112 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 Tully sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: Queensland X-Ray Westcourt to 30 June 2027, Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department to 31 October 2027 and Queensland X-Ray Mater Hyde Park to 30 June 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the four 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.