A pharmacist who dispensed antibiotics and antivirals to himself and two relatives without a script was avoiding the “inconvenience” of a GP appointment, a tribunal says.

The pharmacist admitted dispensing schedule 4 drugs without a script 14 times over nine months. He told investigators his motive was purely “laziness”.

The pharmacist wanted to “avoid the inconvenience in the time required by, and perhaps the expense involved in, he and the family members attending doctor’s appointments”, according to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

“It is not alleged that any of the drugs are particularly inherently dangerous or that the health of any person was in fact endangered or even potentially endangered by reason of the providing.”