Ambulance staff nationwide are to strike for two days from tomorrow in an ongoing row over the choice of union representation with the HSE.

Members of the personnel branch of the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) are to hold the work stoppages on Friday, February 15, Thursday, February 28 and Friday, March 1.

Hundreds of ambulance service personnel have voted in favour of industrial action in an ongoing dispute with the HSE.

Paramedics in the midlands have voted to strike over plans to introduce core rostering.