Children and adults with serious illnesses such as juvenile diabetes, cancer and severe asthma will have access to free medicine with the Baird government to scrap co-payments for public patients should it be re-elected on Saturday.

In a move set to be welcomed by doctors and health-workers, the government will absorb the $76 million being paid out by tens of thousands of patients to access highly-specialised drugs.

NSW Mike Baird will formally announce the policy during a keynote address to supporters at the NSW Liberal Party campaign launch in Recital Hall at Angel Place today.

Under the existing regimen, public patients must pay $37.70 for each script to access medication classified in the Highly Specialised Drugs category, or $6.10 concession.

The Cancer Council has been leading the push to have the co-payment scrapped, with its research showing almost half of public cancer patients live in a household with a total income of less than $30,000 after tax.

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