MRI near St Helens, TAS

If you need MRI, it will not be in St Helens — nothing here is accredited for it. The closest is I-MED Radiology St Lukes Hospital, 92 km away in East Launceston — about 2 hr 10 min in the car. After that, the options are Launceston General Hospital Medical Imaging in Launceston (92 km) and Radiology Tasmania Launceston in South Launceston (93 km).

There are twelve MRI practices within 200 km of St Helens altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

The eligible ones are I-MED Radiology St Lukes Hospital, Launceston General Hospital Medical Imaging 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.

Locally, St Helens is covered for x-ray. A referral for that can be done here: everything St Helens has.

To put 92 km in context: of the 185 TAS towns we hold, 20 are further than St Helens from a MRI service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

Tasmania has 12 MRI practices in total, 6 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to St Helens is where it is.

Accreditation windows: I-MED Radiology St Lukes Hospital to 31 July 2027, Launceston General Hospital Medical Imaging to 31 August 2027 and Radiology Tasmania Launceston 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 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.