PET near George Town, TAS

No practice in George Town is accredited for PET. The closest is I-MED Radiology St Vincents Hospital — Launceston, 46 km away in Launceston — about 40 minutes in the car. It is the only PET service within 200 km of George Town.

George Town 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 I-MED Radiology Mersey Community Hospital Torquay Rd, Latrobe       in Latrobe, 37 km away.

For scale, 68 of the 185 towns we hold in TAS sit further from PET than George Town does.

Across Tasmania, 3 practices are accredited for PET and 1 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — PET is not spread evenly, and George Town sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: I-MED Radiology St Vincents Hospital — Launceston to 31 July 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the one practice listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and one lists opening hours. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.