PET near Swan Hill, VIC

Swan Hill has no PET of its own. The nearest one is at Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine in Bendigo, about 170 km away, roughly 2 hr 28 min by road. It is the only PET service within 200 km of Swan Hill.

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

To put 170 km in context: of the 850 VIC towns we hold, 67 are further than Swan Hill from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

170 km is a real trip, not a detail. Before you drive it, it is worth asking two things: whether you qualify for your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for exactly this, and whether anything closer runs a visiting service — some regional hospitals do, on a roster we cannot see in the register.

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 Swan Hill sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: 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 one practice listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and none publishes opening hours we could confirm. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.