PET near Ballan, VIC

If you need PET, it will not be in Ballan — nothing here is accredited for it. The closest is Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat, 34 km away in Ballarat — about 32 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Capital Radiology Footscray - WPH in Footscray (62 km) and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong in Geelong (62 km).

There are 22 PET practices within 200 km of Ballan altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

Ballan 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 Vision Radiology Bacchus Marsh in Bacchus Marsh, 20 km away.

To put 34 km in context: of the 850 VIC towns we hold, 269 are further than Ballan from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

Across Victoria, 23 practices are accredited for PET and 5 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — PET is not spread evenly, and Ballan sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat to 31 July 2027, Capital Radiology Footscray - WPH to 31 May 2027 and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong 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. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.