PET near Colac, VIC

Colac has no PET of its own. The nearest one is at Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong in Geelong, about 71 km away, roughly 66 minutes by road. After that, the options are Barwon Medical Imaging (University Hospital Geelong) in Geelong (71 km) and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat in Ballarat (90 km).

22 practices within 200 km of Colac are accredited for PET in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

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

To put 71 km in context: of the 850 VIC towns we hold, 166 are further than Colac 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 Colac sits in one of the gaps.

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 three 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.