QLD Monitored Medicines and Schedule 8 Record

Populated Queensland monitored-medicine records under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 (Qld): QScript patient history reports and alerts, Schedule 8 (S8) and other monitored-medicine prescriptions and dispensing records, controlled drug register entries, substance authorities (prescribing approvals for S8 medicines) and Queensland Opioid Treatment Program records. They name a patient and the monitored medicine prescribed or supplied, and often show dispensing history, multiple-prescriber alerts or treatment for drug dependence. Boundary: general medication histories and medication lists without a monitored-medicine frame belong to global-top500-324-medication-histories; the PBS prescriber number alone is au-pbs-prescriber-number.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: QScript, Schedule 8 and substance authority wording is specific to monitored medicines and the enforce tiers need a populated patient and a populated medicine field, which guidance, the published monitored-medicines list and training material lack. Pharmacy and GP systems that print S8 dispensing labels with a patient name will match at 75; that is health information about a person and is an accepted match.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth)
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701, QGISCF
Data categories: phi, health, pii
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:QScript|monitored\s+medicines?|Schedule\s+8\s+(?:medicines?|drugs?|poisons?|prescriptions?|register)|S8\s+(?:medicines?|drugs?|poisons?|prescriptions?|register)|controlled\s+drugs?\s+(?:prescriptions?|register)|drugs?\s+of\s+dependence|substance\s+authority|(?:Queensland\s+)?Opioid\s+Treatment\s+Program|QOTP)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

patient history, dispensing history, multiple prescribers, approval number, drug-dependent person, Medicines and Poisons Act

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

QScript patient history - search run 14/10/2026 Patient: Jordan Teston DOB: 03/03/1977 Medicine: Oxycodone 10 mg controlled-release tablets Quantity: 28 Dispensing pharmacy: Teston Pharmacy Nundah Alert: multiple prescribers in the last 90 days — 85 tier - QScript patient history with patient, medicine, pharmacy and a multiple-prescriber alert
Substance authority - Schedule 8 medicine Patient name: Riley Teston Date of birth: 21/06/1990 Drug: Dexamfetamine 5 mg tablets Directions: 1 tablet mane and midi Approval number: QH-SA-2026-000000, approval granted for 12 months — 85 tier - substance authority with patient, drug, directions and approval number
Monitored medicine dispensing record Patient: Morgan Teston Medicine: Buprenorphine 8 mg sublingual tablets — 75 tier - monitored medicine dispensing record with patient and medicine only

Should not match

Monitored medicines list. The following substances are monitored medicines in Queensland: alprazolam, buprenorphine, codeine, dexamfetamine, fentanyl, methadone, oxycodone, tapentadol. This page explains prescriber obligations to check QScript. — Published monitored-medicines reference list and prescriber guidance (65 at most)
QScript user guide - training module 3. Search for a patient, review the patient history and record the outcome. Prescribers must check QScript before prescribing a monitored medicine. — QScript training material (65 at most)
Schedule 8 prescription Patient name: ____________________ Date of birth: __/__/____ Drug: ____________________ Quantity: ________ Prescriber: ____________________ — Blank S8 prescription pad (65 at most)
Supply 200 x M8 stainless bolts and S8 washers to the depot by Friday. — Unrelated hardware order (no match)

Known false positives

Queensland Health prescriber guidance, the published monitored-medicines list, QScript user guides and pharmacy training. Mitigation: No populated patient or medicine field, and guidance, training, user-guide and reference-list framing is excluded from enforce tiers.
Blank prescription pads and controlled drug register templates. Mitigation: Field values reject blanks, underscores and placeholders; fixture wording is excluded by the shared template-exclusion dictionary.
Pharmacy dispensing labels for S8 medicines naming a patient. Mitigation: Accepted match - the label is health information about an identified person and reaches 75.