NSW paramedics are preparing for industrial action to pressure the state government for better conditions and resources.
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The Australian Paramedics Association says it will ban staff movements and undertaking scheduled non-urgent transfers for 24 hours on Tuesday.
Participating paramedics will only work out of stations they start their shifts at, and won't transfer to other stations throughout the day to fill roster gaps.
Those in the north of the state are being excluded from industrial action due to the flood recovery effort.
Meanwhile, the Health Services Union, which claims to represent 3200 paramedics that make up "the vast and overwhelming bulk of the state's ambulance workforce" said it has no industrial action planned.
Multiple unions represent paramedics.
The APA's NSW assistant secretary Alan O'Riordan told AAP on Monday the escalation of industrial action, beyond the chalked messages that have adorned NSW ambulances for several months, was necessary because "the government just keeps ignoring us".
He said there has been no engagement from the government, and that was the same level of respect most other healthcare workers were being shown throughout the pandemic.
The union wants more paramedics and boosted pay and held a similar action in February.
Mr O'Riordan said 1500 extra paramedics would help replace those who are leaving the workforce due to burnout and other factors, but even more would be required to meet the requirements of the state's eight million people.
More specialist paramedics are also needed in the regions, while paramedics are looking for a "meaningful pay increase", which Mr O'Riordan said would be a three to five per cent rise at minimum.
Mr O'Riordan said the government needed to acknowledge there is a problem in the paramedic workforce and begin meeting with workers, so taxpayers get the ambulance service they deserve and pay for.
But he expects "probably very, very little" will actually come out of Tuesday's industrial action and "we will just be ignored yet again".
Nurses are planning to walk off the job for 24 hours on Thursday to hold public rallies calling for pay rises and improved nurse to patient ratios.
The office of Health Minister Brad Hazzard has been contacted for comment.
Australian Associated Press
