Nuclear medicine near Lakes Entrance, VIC

Lakes Entrance has no nuclear medicine of its own. The closest is Central Gippsland Health — Sale, 85 km away in Sale — about 1 hr 38 min in the car. After that, the options are I-MED Radiology Traralgon Latrobe Regional Hospital in Traralgon (139 km).

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

To put 85 km in context: of the 850 VIC towns we hold, 48 are further than Lakes Entrance from a nuclear medicine service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

Victoria has 63 nuclear medicine practices in total, 15 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Lakes Entrance is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Central Gippsland Health — Sale to 31 October 2027 and I-MED Radiology Traralgon Latrobe Regional Hospital to 30 September 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the two practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and one lists 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.