PET near St Helens, TAS

There is no PET scanner in St Helens. The closest is I-MED Radiology St Vincents Hospital — Launceston, 92 km away in Launceston — about 2 hr 11 min in the car. After that, the options are Qscan Hobart (PET-CT) in Hobart (189 km) and Royal Hobart Hospital Medical Imaging in Hobart (189 km).

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, 41 are further than St Helens from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

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 St Helens sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: I-MED Radiology St Vincents Hospital — Launceston to 31 July 2027, Qscan Hobart (PET-CT) to 31 October 2027 and Royal Hobart Hospital Medical Imaging to 30 November 2026. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the three practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and one lists opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.