Doctors have ended their strike and returned to work amid new hope that a deal over changes to their contracts can be reached before the next planned 48-hour walkout.
Thousands of junior doctors walked out for 24 hours, while around 4,000 operations had to be cancelled.
Two further strikes are planned but talks are expected to resume in an effort to break the stalemate.
Doctors are ready for fresh talks "at any time" to prevent further strikes, the British Medical Association has said, amid warnings from Government that further industrial action could put lives at risk.
A 24-hour walkout on Tuesday saw the cancellation of around 4,000 operations and was condemned as "unnecessary" by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Two further strikes are planned - the second of which would involve a refusal to take part in emergency care - but talks are expected to resume in an effort to break the stalemate.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, BMA council chairman Dr Mark Porter said:
Retired Dr Henry Goodall, who was a junior doctor in 1970, says the current generation are "used to working less hard with fewer hours".
As junior doctors in hospitals across England go on strike for 24 hours today, a junior doctor writes for ITV News on why she is striking.
A government aide was filmed trying to prevent a reporter asking why Jeremy Hunt was not speaking ahead of today's national doctors' strike