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.
Jeremy Hunt hopes that the latest talks with junior doctors over contract proposals and changes to working hours will "succeed."
Speaking to journalists outside his London home this morning, the Health Secretary also reaffirmed his view that Tuesday's 24-hour strike had been a "very unnecessary strike".
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