Ultrasound near Meekatharra, WA

If you need ultrasound, it will not be in Meekatharra — nothing here is accredited for it. The nearest one is at Ngangganawili Aboriginal Health Service in Wiluna, about 172 km away. It is the only ultrasound service within 200 km of Meekatharra.

What Meekatharra does have locally is x-ray. If your referral is for that, you do not need to leave town — see everything Meekatharra has.

To put 172 km in context: of the 559 WA towns we hold, 16 are further than Meekatharra from a ultrasound service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

There is no way around the distance: 172 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 Meekatharra visits on a roster. The register cannot show us visiting services.

Across Western Australia, 143 practices are accredited for ultrasound and 40 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — ultrasound is not spread evenly, and Meekatharra sits in one of the gaps.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Ngangganawili Aboriginal Health Service to 30 June 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.