Nuclear medicine near Stawell, VIC

Stawell does not have a nuclear medicine service. The closest is Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat, 110 km away in Ballarat — about 1 hr 38 min in the car. After that, the options are Grampians Health Ballarat (Ballarat Base Hospital) Radiology in Ballarat (110 km) and Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine in Bendigo (138 km).

There are 15 nuclear medicine practices within 200 km of Stawell altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

Stawell is not without imaging — x-ray, ultrasound and CT are available in town. The town page lists everything Stawell has.

For scale, 32 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from nuclear medicine than Stawell does.

There is no way around the distance: 110 km each way. Before you commit to it, two things are worth a phone call — your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for people in exactly this position, and whether any service closer to Stawell visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

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 Stawell is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat to 31 July 2027, Grampians Health Ballarat (Ballarat Base Hospital) Radiology to 31 May 2027 and Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine 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.