MRI near Bannockburn, VIC

If you need MRI, it will not be in Bannockburn — nothing here is accredited for it. The closest is Barwon Health (Barwon Medical Imaging) — North Geelong, 16 km away in North Geelong — about 17 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Barwon Health (Barwon Medical Imaging) — Norlane in Norlane (17 km) and Radiology Victoria at Epworth Geelong in Waurn Ponds (20 km).

There are 125 MRI practices within 200 km of Bannockburn altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

The eligible ones are Barwon Health (Barwon Medical Imaging) — Norlane, Radiology Victoria at Epworth Geelong and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong — they appear on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list (last updated 17 February 2026). Barwon Health (Barwon Medical Imaging) — North Geelong runs an accredited MRI unit that is not on the list, so ask what an MRI there would cost you.

Bannockburn 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 Barwon Health (Barwon Medical Imaging) — North Geelong in North Geelong, 16 km away.

For scale, 231 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from MRI than Bannockburn does.

Victoria has 140 MRI practices in total, 40 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Bannockburn is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Barwon Health (Barwon Medical Imaging) — North Geelong to 31 August 2027, Barwon Health (Barwon Medical Imaging) — Norlane to 30 November 2026 and Radiology Victoria at Epworth Geelong to 31 August 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.