Ambulance workers across the region are set to return to strike action next week.
In May, a pay deal was reached between the unions and the government which it was hoped would end the walkouts.
However Unite, one of the unions that took part in the negotiations, voted to reject the deal.
The latest strike for ambulance workers across the West Midlands is set to take place tomorrow (12th June), but only between 6am and midday and 6pm to midnight.
The industrial action means fewer ambulances on the roads and fewer staff taking 999 calls, but crews will still respond to urgent calls such as heart attacks, strokes and cardiac arrests as normal.
Emergency services operations delivery director at West Midlands Ambulance Service, Nathan Hudson, said:
“We have had productive discussions with our colleagues to agree that ambulances will respond to the most urgent calls such as cardiac arrests and where a crew request immediate back up at the scene of a case, and other very serious cases such as heart attacks, strokes, difficulty in breathing and maternity cases
“In addition, staff in our non-emergency patient transport service will continue to convey vulnerable groups such as patients undertaking renal dialysis, cancer treatments, palliative care, emergency scans within the strike period timeframe.
“Ambulances will be dispatched where clinically appropriate.”
Nathan Hudson