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Nearest MRI services to Smithton
There is no MRI service in Smithton. The nearest is I-MED Radiology North West Medical Centre in Burnie, about 67 km away.
The same practices also cover ultrasound and CT in Smithton, so this page is the answer for those too — the practices and the distances do not change with the scan.
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1I-MED Radiology North West Medical CentreMedical Centre North West Private Hospital, L 1 Brickport Rd, Burnie, TAS, 732067 km away, about 73 minutes by roadMedicare-eligible MRI (on the government list, updated 17 February 2026).Opening hours
- Monday–Friday
- 8am-6pm
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2I-MED RadiologyI-Med Regional Devonport, 20 Oldaker St, Devonport, TAS, 7310110 km away, about 1 hr 53 min by roadMedicare-eligible MRI (on the government list, updated 17 February 2026).
Opening hours not published — call before travelling.
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3Lumus Imaging Launceston237-247 Wellington St, Launceston, TAS, 7250182 km away, about 2 hr 59 min by roadMRI accredited but not on the Medicare-eligible list — ask about out-of-pocket cost.Opening hours not published — call before travelling.
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4Medicare-eligible MRI (on the government list, updated 17 February 2026).Opening hours not published — call before travelling.
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5Medicare-eligible MRI (on the government list, updated 17 February 2026).
Opening hours
- Monday–Friday
- 9am-5pm
About these results
No practice in Smithton is accredited for MRI. The closest is I-MED Radiology North West Medical Centre, 67 km away in Burnie — about 73 minutes in the car. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology in Devonport (110 km) and Lumus Imaging Launceston in Launceston (182 km).
There are six MRI practices within 200 km of Smithton altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.
The eligible ones are I-MED Radiology North West Medical Centre, I-MED Radiology and Radiology Tasmania Launceston — they appear on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list (last updated 17 February 2026). Lumus Imaging Launceston runs an accredited MRI unit that is not on the list, so ask what an MRI there would cost you.
Smithton is not without imaging — x-ray is available in town. The town page lists everything Smithton has.
For scale, 23 of the 185 towns we hold in TAS sit further from MRI than Smithton does.
Across Tasmania, 12 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 Smithton sits in one of the gaps.
The register has these accreditations running to: I-MED Radiology North West Medical Centre to 31 July 2027, I-MED Radiology to 31 July 2027 and Lumus Imaging Launceston to 30 September 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 two list 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.
scanfinder shows you where imaging is available. Your doctor decides which scan you need — you'll need a referral for all of these.
About MRI. An MRI uses a magnetic field rather than x-rays, and the machines are expensive, so far fewer places have one. Accreditation means a practice meets the Medicare requirements for it — it is not a ranking, and we publish no ratings. Distances are straight-line from the centre of the town, so the drive is a little longer.
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