PET near Creswick, VIC

If you need PET, it will not be in Creswick — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat in Ballarat, about 15 km away, roughly 17 minutes by road. After that, the options are Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine in Bendigo (82 km) and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong in Geelong (91 km).

Widen the search to 200 km and there are 22 PET practices; the closest five are above.

Creswick 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 Sovereign Radiology Wendouree in Wendouree, 14 km away.

For scale, 385 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from PET than Creswick does.

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 Creswick is where it is.

Accreditation windows: Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat to 31 July 2027, Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine to 31 July 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 three list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.