PET near Moonta Bay, SA

If you need PET, it will not be in Moonta Bay — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Radiology SA Elizabeth Vale in Elizabeth Vale, about 127 km away, roughly 2 hr 05 min by road. After that, the options are Royal Adelaide Hospital SAMI site in Adelaide (135 km) and Jones Radiology-Sahmri in Adelaide (135 km).

There are six PET practices within 200 km of Moonta Bay altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

Moonta Bay 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 Jones Radiology Wallaroo District Hospital in Wallaroo, 15 km away.

To put 127 km in context: of the 515 SA towns we hold, 109 are further than Moonta Bay from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

127 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.

South Australia has 6 PET practices in total, 0 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Moonta Bay is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Radiology SA Elizabeth Vale to 31 May 2027, Royal Adelaide Hospital SAMI site to 31 August 2027 and Jones Radiology-Sahmri 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 none publishes opening hours we could confirm. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.