There are strike picket lines in Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Barnstaple and Torbay.
Nurses and ambulance staff have been joining strike picket lines across the South West.
"Nursing staff have been underpaid for at least the last 12 years, they are burnt out from working through Covid and there is now not enough of us."Paramedic Neil Armstrong was on the picket line in Plymouth and said: "I just want to reassure the public that today we are responding to category one and category two calls from the picket lines.
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