Fact sheets and supporting documents

Medicines

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• General

  • Purposes of the Act (PDF 230 kB)
  • Overview of the medicine framework (PDF 300 kB)
  • Categories of medicines and dealings (PDF 178 kB)
  • Authorisations and activities (PDF 222 kB)
  • Substance authorities (types, applications and fees) (PDF 196 kB)
  • Extended practice authorities (PDF 144 kB)
  • Departmental standards - medicines (PDF 251 kB)
  • Emergency orders, emerging risk declarations and public warnings (PDF 282 kB)
  • Substance management plans (PDF 238 kB)
  • Reviews of decisions, stays and appeals (PDF 200 kB)
  • Compliance, monitoring and enforcement (PDF 542 kB)
• Approved persons

  • Authorisations and activities (PDF 222 kB)
  • Extended practice authorities (PDF 144 kB)
  • Immunisation programs - registered nurses (PDF 219 kB)
  • Key legislative requirements - Dental practitioners (PDF 322 kB)
  • Key legislative requirements - Medical practitioners (PDF 281 kB)
  • Key legislative requirements - Midwives (PDF 236 kB)
  • Key legislative requirements - Nurse practitioners (PDF 276 kB)
  • Key legislative requirements - Nurses (PDF 230 kB)
  • Key legislative requirements - Pharmacists (PDF 283 kB)
  • Offence to self-prescribe and/or self-administer high-risk medicines (PDF 89 kB)
  • Pharmaceutical professions and QScript (PDF 356 kB)
  • Relevant institutions (aged care facilities, hospitals, prisons, detention centres) (PDF 732 kB)
  • Veterinary surgeons (PDF 245 kB)
• Substance authorities (licences and approvals)

  • Substance authorities (types, applications and fees) (PDF 196 kB)
  • Manufacturers (PDF 312 kB)
  • Commonwealth law manufacturers (PDF 222 kB)
  • Medicated feed (PDF 430 kB)
  • Wholesale suppliers (PDF 242 kB)
  • When is a wholesale licence required by the MPA (PDF 491 kB)
  • Medicinal cannabis wholesalers (PDF 137 kB)
  • Wholesale representatives (PDF 195 kB)
  • Carriers, transport and logistics (PDF 158 kB)
  • Fees - medicines (PDF 194 kB)
  • General approvals (PDF 269 kB)
  • Acute health conditions at isolated sites (PDF 274 kB)
  • Emergency First Aid  (PDF 198 kB)
  • Emergency First Aid—Standing orders (PDF 77 kB)
  • Emergency management of animals (PDF 242 kB)
  • Immunisation programs - registered nurses (PDF 219 kB)
• Functional and technical requirements

  • Application form - Electronic storage and supply units for Schedule 8 medicines (PDF 314 kB)
  • Disposal and destruction of diversion-risk medicine waste (PDF 165 kB)
  • Health practitioners working under a clinical protocol (PDF 209 kB)
  • Image based prescriptions (PDF 448 kB)
  • Interstate prescriptions for dispensing in Queensland (PDF 181 kB)
  • Medicated feed (PDF 430 kB)
  • Prescribing and dispensing unapproved medicinal cannabis (PDF 188 kB)
  • Prescribing psychostimulants (PDF 195 kB)
  • Schedule 8 – MDMA and psilocybine (PDF 254 kB)
  • Standing orders (PDF 126 kB)
  • Standing orders - Emergency management of animals (PDF 141 kB)
  • Standing orders - Relevant institutions (DOCX 43 kB)
  • Storage and record-keeping requirements for Schedule 8 medicines (PDF 242 kB)
  • Substance management plans (PDF 238 kB)
  • Writing Lawful Prescriptions (PDF 202 kB)
• First aid, institutions and other places

  • First aid providers (PDF 219 kB)
  • Naloxone (PDF 227 kB)
  • Royal Flying Doctor Service (PDF 297 kB)
  • Mines (PDF 335 kB)
  • Ships (PDF 195 kB)
  • Relevant institutions (aged care facilities, hospitals, prisons, detention centres) (PDF 732 kB)
  • Major events (PDF 256 kB)
• Templates and supporting documents

  • Substance Management Plan Standard Guidance Document (PDF 462 kB)
  • Template—Purchase order (PDF 124 kB)
  • Template—Standing order for general approval (emergency first aid) (PDF 128 kB)
  • Template—Standing order for general approval (emergency management of animals) (DOCX 45 kB)
  • Standing orders - Relevant institutions (DOCX 43 kB)
  • Template—Written prescription for a group of animals (medicated feed)  (PDF 2346 kB)
  • Template—HMP for immunisation program (DOCX 43 kB)
  • Substance management plan (SMP) - checklist PDF (PDF 237 kB) | WORD (DOCX 85 kB)

Monitored medicines

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• Fact sheets

  • Changes to QScript look-up and Monitored Medicines Standard requirements (PDF 172 kB)
  • Prescribing psychostimulants (PDF 195 kB)
• Supporting documents

  • Changes to the Monitored Medicines Standard: Frequently asked questions (PDF 602 kB)
  • Checking QScript (PDF 397 kB)
  • QScript look-up exemptions: Frequently asked questions  (PDF 533 kB)
  • Queensland Opioid Treatment Program: A guide to key legislative requirements under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 (PDF 518 kB)

Poisons, prohibited substances and pest management

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• Fact sheets

  • Do I need a substance management plan (PDF 253 kB)
  • Poisons and pest management for horticulture businesses (excluding primary producers) (PDF 297 kB)
  • Poisons and pest management for primary producers (PDF 483 kB)
  • Approved persons – aerial distribution (PDF 259 kB)
  • Authorised Biosecurity and Nature Conservation Officers (PDF 252 kB)
  • Industrial users of cyanide (PDF 232 kB)
  • Local government (PDF 251 kB)
  • Manufacturing licence – poisons (PDF 283 kB)
  • Poisons terms (PDF 392 kB)
  • Research and analytical laboratories using schedules substances (PDF 265 kB)
  • Wholesale licence – poisons (PDF 242 kB)
  • Retail licence for Schedule 7 poisons (PDF 245 kB)
  • Transport and logistics services (PDF 235 kB)
  • Transitional arrangements (PDF 253 kB)
  • Universities using regulated poisons (PDF 305 kB)
  • Commercial baiting operators (PDF 173 kB)
  • Pest management high-risk and sensitive places licence endorsements
    (PDF 225 kB)
  • Rural landholders using Restricted S7 poisons for invasive animal control
    (PDF 174 kB)
• Supporting documents

  • Substance management plans checklist – research, teaching & analysis (DOCX 621 kB)
  • Activity risk management plan template – pest control activity (DOCX 30 kB)
  • Activity risk management plan template – fumigation activity (DOCX 27 kB)
  • Flyer – pest management (PDF 195 kB)