PET near Apollo Bay, VIC

Apollo Bay does not have a PET scanner. The closest is Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong, 90 km away in Geelong. After that, the options are Barwon Medical Imaging (University Hospital Geelong) in Geelong (91 km) and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat in Ballarat (135 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are 21 PET practices; the closest five are above.

What Apollo Bay does have locally is x-ray and ultrasound. If your referral is for one of those, you do not need to leave town — see everything Apollo Bay has.

To put 90 km in context: of the 850 VIC towns we hold, 140 are further than Apollo Bay from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

Victoria has 23 PET practices in total, 5 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Apollo Bay is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong to 31 July 2027, Barwon Medical Imaging (University Hospital Geelong) to 31 August 2027 and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat to 31 July 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 four list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.