Nuclear medicine near Longford, TAS

Longford has no nuclear medicine of its own. The nearest one is at I-MED Radiology St Vincents Hospital — Launceston in Launceston, about 18 km away, roughly 20 minutes by road. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology North West Medical Centre in Burnie (121 km) and I-MED Radiology Calvary Hospital in Lenah Valley (141 km).

Longford 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 Impact Radiology in South Launceston, 17 km away.

For scale, 78 of the 185 towns we hold in TAS sit further from nuclear medicine than Longford does.

Tasmania has 5 nuclear medicine practices in total, 2 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Longford is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: I-MED Radiology St Vincents Hospital — Launceston to 31 July 2027, I-MED Radiology North West Medical Centre to 31 July 2027 and I-MED Radiology Calvary Hospital to 30 June 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.