Medicines and Poisons Act 2019

The chief executive must keep an electronic database (the monitored medicines database) to record information about the prescription and supply of monitored medicines.

The purposes of keeping the monitored medicines database are—

to promote safe practices for the therapeutic use of monitored medicines and reduce community harm caused by monitored medicines; and

to ensure particular health practitioners are complying with this Act, a corresponding law or any applicable requirements under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law; and

to facilitate—

the assessment or investigation of health service complaints under the Health Ombudsman Act 2013; and

the investigation or monitoring of persons subject to actions or orders under that Act; and

to enable particular health practitioners to access the database to record and review information for the therapeutic treatment of persons; and

to facilitate evaluation and research into monitored medicines; and

to facilitate national consistency in the therapeutic use of monitored medicines; and

any other purpose prescribed by regulation.