NQPHN runs workshop for Townsville general practices, pharmacies, and aged care homes to prepare, respond, and recover

The annual NQPHN surveys are now open for general practice, allied health and pharmacy, Hospital and Health Services, and the North Queensland Health Workforce Alliance.

Following the Commonwealth Department of Health’s proposal in 2018, Queensland Health has introduced QScript—a real-time prescription monitoring system. Since 28 October 2021, all relevant health practitioners are required to have registered and be accessing the system.

To support the Australian Government's objective to encourage non-English speaking cohorts in the Australian community to the vaccinated against COVID-19, the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National) has temporarily extended the Free Interpreting Service to now cover non-Medicare patients receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

QScript is Queensland’s real time prescriptions monitoring system. It captures information about certain medicines called monitored medicines (all schedule 8 medicines and some schedule 4 medicines).

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has shared that over 14 million original and repeat electronic prescriptions have been issued to date.

It is now mandatory for all Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits (RPBS) prescriptions to include information about the active ingredients in medicines.