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For Health Professionals Digital Health Canberra Script

Canberra Script is the ACT’s Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) system designed to help prescribers and pharmacists when prescribing or dispensing monitored medicines for consumers.  Canberra Script supports safer clinical decision making with the aim to reduces harms and preventable deaths associated with monitored medicines in the ACT Community.

Medicines monitored as part of Canberra Script include all Schedule 8 controlled medicines and some Schedule 4 medicines, including: all benzodiazepines, tramadol, codeine, zolpidem, zopiclone, pregabalin, quetiapine, and gabapentin.

When to use Canberra Script? 

  • When prescribing or supplying a monitored medicine to the patient.
  • When reviewing the patient’s monitored medicine history as part of a patient consultation (e.g. when a prescriber takes a patient’s history or a pharmacist conducts a medication review.)
  • When discussing the patient’s monitored medicine history with other registered health practitioners who are involved in the patient’s care.
  • When applying for Chief Health Officer approval.

Online registration to Canberra Script is easy. It only takes four steps to complete within 10 minutes and only requires a person’s AHPRA Number, Date of Birth, and AHPRA registered email.

  • Step 1: Provide your AHPRA number and DOB
  • Step 2: Enter verification code sent to your AHPRA email (check junk folder)
  • Step 3: Enter preferred email address – Note your preferred email cannot be an ACT Health email address
  • Step 4: Create password and read and accept the Terms and Conditions

For queries, contact the Canberra Script team on 02 5124 9208 or canberrascript@act.gov.au.

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