QScript resources for health practitioners

QScript Connect newsletters

Updates and insights on QScript, real-time prescription monitoring and related topics.

Issue 1: March 2026

Fact sheets, guides and posters

• Changes to QScript look-up and Monitored Medicines Standard requirements (PDF 172 kB): an overview of the legislative changes commencing 1 July 2024 impacting mandatory QScript look-up requirements
• Checking QScript (PDF 397 kB): guidance to help relevant practitioners understand and meet their legislative obligations to check QScript
• Registering for and using QScript when practising outside of Queensland (PDF 141 kB): guidance on how prescribers and pharmacists in jurisdictions other than Queensland can register for QScript, and when practitioners are authorised to use QScript
• Pharmaceutical professions and QScript (PDF 356 kB): guidance for pharmacists and intern pharmacists about QScript use and the requirement to upload monitored medicine dispensing records to QScript
• QScript look-up exemptions: frequently asked questions (PDF 533 kB): guidance for relevant practitioners on exemptions from mandatory QScript look-up requirements
• QScript: The system in practice (PDF 124 kB): a high-level overview of how QScript works
• Regulatory framework for medicines offences (PDF 542 kB): an overview of Queensland Health’s approach to compliance monitoring and enforcement of medicines offences under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019
• Posters for display:
  • This pharmacy uses QScript (PDF 78 kB)
  • This practice uses QScript (PDF 69 kB)
  • QScript – Real-time prescription monitoring is used here (PDF 162 kB) (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care poster)

Videos

• Healthcare happens in real time: a brief overview of what QScript is and how it works
• QScript login and patient search: a demonstration of how to log in, conduct patient searches and navigate a patient’s medication history in QScript
• QScript alerts: an overview of QScript alerts and how to view them
• QScript approvals, QOTP episodes and correspondence: guidance on viewing prescribing approvals and Queensland Opioid Treatment Program (QOTP) episodes for patients, and how prescribers can view correspondence and identify approvals and QOTP episodes in their name
• What is QScript?:  information for patients about what QScript is and how it can help keep them safe

Technical resources

• QScript help topics: comprehensive information about general QScript functionality
• QScript troubleshooting guide (PDF 242 kB): troubleshooting assistance for specific technical issues users may encounter

Clinical and training resources

• Adis: a 24 hour, 7 day a week confidential support service, which can assist health practitioners with relevant local service information, up-to-date drug information and drug trends, resources, and advice on treatment options
• Insight: alcohol and other drug training, education, clinical resources and practice advice for workers and services
• Potential indicators of drug-seeking behaviour or monitored medicine misuse (PDF 532 kB): information to assist prescribers and pharmacists in identifying potential indicators of drug-seeking behaviour or monitored medicine misuse
• Real-time prescription monitoring—a digital tool for clinical safety: an Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care fact sheet highlighting benefits, limitations and clinical practice principles for the use of real-time prescription monitoring systems
• Real-time prescription monitoring—clinical risk management: an Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care guide on the use of real-time prescription monitoring systems for clinical risk identification, assessment, mitigation and monitoring
• Real-time prescription monitoring—conversation guide: an Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care guide on engaging in effective conversations with patients and other clinicians about monitored medicines

Other resources

Legislative resources

• Fact sheets and supporting documents: resources to help health practitioners understand their legislative obligations under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 and Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Regulation 2021
• QOTP resources: information, resources and forms relevant to the Queensland Opioid Treatment Program
• Reporting medicines matters to the chief executive: online approved forms to assist with meeting reporting and notification requirements under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 and Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Regulation 2021 (e.g. reporting a lost or stolen medicine)
• Legislation, standards and extended practice authorities: information about and links to the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 and its associated subordinate regulations, departmental standards and extended practice authorities
• Compliance monitoring and enforcement of medicines offences: links to information about Queensland Health’s regulatory framework for medicines offences

Patient resources

• QScript for patients: information for patients about the purpose of QScript, how it works and how it can help keep them safe
• Adis: a 24 hour, 7 day a week confidential support service offering support for people in Queensland with alcohol and other drug concerns, their loved ones and health professionals
• Drug use: support and treatment: contact details for support and treatment services for people concerned about their own or someone else’s substance use

Privacy resources and Terms of Access and Use

• QScript Privacy collection notice for patients (PDF 229 kB)
• QScript Privacy collection notice for health practitioners
• Summary of the QScript Privacy Impact Assessment (PDF 157 kB)
• QScript Terms of Access and Use – Health practitioners (PDF, 1.4MB)