Nuclear medicine near Warracknabeal, VIC

Warracknabeal has no nuclear medicine of its own. The closest is Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine, 178 km away in Bendigo — about 2 hr 40 min in the car. After that, the options are Bendigo Radiology Hamilton in Hamilton (178 km) and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat in Ballarat (194 km).

Locally, Warracknabeal is covered for x-ray and ultrasound. A referral for one of those can be done here: everything Warracknabeal has.

To put 178 km in context: of the 850 VIC towns we hold, 15 are further than Warracknabeal from a nuclear medicine service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

A 178 km trip is a day out of your life, not an errand. Ask your referring doctor about the patient travel assistance scheme in your state, and ask the nearest hospital whether a visiting service ever covers Warracknabeal — rosters like that do not appear in the accreditation register.

Across Victoria, 63 practices are accredited for nuclear medicine and 15 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — nuclear medicine is not spread evenly, and Warracknabeal sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine to 31 July 2027, Bendigo Radiology Hamilton 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 four practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and two list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.