PET near Warrnambool, VIC

No practice in Warrnambool is accredited for PET. The closest is Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat, 150 km away in Ballarat — about 2 hr 23 min in the car. After that, the options are Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong in Geelong (165 km) and Barwon Medical Imaging (University Hospital Geelong) in Geelong (166 km).

Locally, Warrnambool is covered for x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI and nuclear medicine. A referral for one of those can be done here: everything Warrnambool has.

To put 150 km in context: of the 850 VIC towns we hold, 74 are further than Warrnambool from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

There is no way around the distance: 150 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 Warrnambool visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

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 Warrnambool sits in one of the gaps.

Accreditation windows: Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat to 31 July 2027, Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong to 31 July 2027 and Barwon Medical Imaging (University Hospital Geelong) to 31 August 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the three practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and two list 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.