MRI near Clare, SA

If you need MRI, it will not be in Clare — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Benairnco Pty Ltd — Nuriootpa in Nuriootpa, about 79 km away, roughly 85 minutes by road. After that, the options are Benairnco Pty Ltd — Gawler South in Gawler South (87 km) and Lyell McEwin Hospital SAMI site in Elizabeth Vale (102 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are 38 MRI practices; the closest five are above.

Benairnco Pty Ltd — Nuriootpa, Lyell McEwin Hospital SAMI site and Radiology SA Elizabeth Vale are on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list (last updated 17 February 2026); Benairnco Pty Ltd — Gawler South and Radiology SA Elizabeth Vale are accredited for MRI but not on that list, so a scan there may not attract a rebate.

What Clare does have locally is x-ray and ultrasound. If your referral is for one of those, you do not need to leave town — see everything Clare has.

For scale, 42 of the 515 towns we hold in SA sit further from MRI than Clare does.

Across South Australia, 40 practices are accredited for MRI and 6 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — MRI is not spread evenly, and Clare sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Benairnco Pty Ltd — Nuriootpa to 30 June 2027, Benairnco Pty Ltd — Gawler South to 30 November 2027 and Lyell McEwin Hospital SAMI site to 31 May 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 none publishes opening hours we could confirm. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.