diff --git a/agent/agent.go b/agent/agent.go
index 493c9bd11..f7c2dff81 100644
--- a/agent/agent.go
+++ b/agent/agent.go
@@ -378,10 +378,10 @@ func New(bd BaseDeps) (*Agent, error) {
 		cacheName = cachetype.StreamingHealthServicesName
 	}
 	a.rpcClientHealth = &health.Client{
-		Cache:            bd.Cache,
-		NetRPC:           &a,
-		CacheName:        cacheName,
-		CacheNameIngress: cachetype.HealthServicesName,
+		Cache:                 bd.Cache,
+		NetRPC:                &a,
+		CacheName:             cacheName,
+		CacheNameNotStreaming: cachetype.HealthServicesName,
 	}
 
 	a.serviceManager = NewServiceManager(&a)
diff --git a/agent/health_endpoint.go b/agent/health_endpoint.go
index cdfccd39f..6afd70528 100644
--- a/agent/health_endpoint.go
+++ b/agent/health_endpoint.go
@@ -219,13 +219,9 @@ func (s *HTTPHandlers) healthServiceNodes(resp http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Re
 		return nil, nil
 	}
 
-	useStreaming := s.agent.config.UseStreamingBackend && args.MinQueryIndex > 0 && !args.Ingress
+	useStreaming := s.agent.config.UseStreamingBackend && args.MinQueryIndex > 0 && !args.Ingress && args.Source.Node == ""
 	args.QueryOptions.UseCache = s.agent.config.HTTPUseCache && (args.QueryOptions.UseCache || useStreaming)
 
-	if args.QueryOptions.UseCache && useStreaming && args.Source.Node != "" {
-		return nil, BadRequestError{Reason: "'near' query param can not be used with streaming"}
-	}
-
 	out, md, err := s.agent.rpcClientHealth.ServiceNodes(req.Context(), args)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
diff --git a/agent/rpcclient/health/health.go b/agent/rpcclient/health/health.go
index 547777337..f37626498 100644
--- a/agent/rpcclient/health/health.go
+++ b/agent/rpcclient/health/health.go
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ type Client struct {
 	MaterializerDeps MaterializerDeps
 	// CacheName to use for service health.
 	CacheName string
-	// CacheNameIngress is the name of the cache type to use for ingress
-	// service health.
-	CacheNameIngress string
+	// CacheNameNotStreaming is the name of the cache type to use for any requests
+	// that are not supported by the streaming backend (ex: Ingress=true).
+	CacheNameNotStreaming string
 }
 
 type NetRPC interface {
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ func (c *Client) getServiceNodes(
 	}
 
 	cacheName := c.CacheName
-	if req.Ingress {
-		cacheName = c.CacheNameIngress
+	if req.Ingress || req.Source.Node != "" {
+		cacheName = c.CacheNameNotStreaming
 	}
 
 	raw, md, err := c.Cache.Get(ctx, cacheName, &req)
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ func (c *Client) Notify(
 	ch chan<- cache.UpdateEvent,
 ) error {
 	cacheName := c.CacheName
-	if req.Ingress {
-		cacheName = c.CacheNameIngress
+	if req.Ingress || req.Source.Node != "" {
+		cacheName = c.CacheNameNotStreaming
 	}
 	return c.Cache.Notify(ctx, cacheName, &req, correlationID, ch)
 }
diff --git a/website/content/api-docs/health.mdx b/website/content/api-docs/health.mdx
index 4a3f1b759..220244dc6 100644
--- a/website/content/api-docs/health.mdx
+++ b/website/content/api-docs/health.mdx
@@ -229,9 +229,10 @@ The table below shows this endpoint's support for
 - `near` `(string: "")` - Specifies a node name to sort the node list in
   ascending order based on the estimated round trip time from that node. Passing
   `?near=_agent` will use the agent's node for the sort. This is specified as
-  part of the URL as a query parameter. **Note** that `near` can not be used if
-  [`use_streaming_backend`](/docs/agent/options#use_streaming_backend)
-  is enabled, because the data is not available to sort the results.
+  part of the URL as a query parameter. **Note** that using `near` will ignore 
+  [`use_streaming_backend`](/docs/agent/options#use_streaming_backend) and always
+  use blocking queries, because the data required to sort the results is not available
+  to the streaming backend.
 
 - `tag` `(string: "")` **Deprecated** - Use `filter` with the `Service.Tags` selector instead.
   This parameter will be removed in a future version of Consul.