Junior doctors are set to take part in the second day of the all-out strike in the row over contracts.
More than 20,000 junior doctors are thought to have been on strike yesterday as the Health Secretary admitted this was likely to be his "last big job in politics".
The strike is planned to take place between 8am and 5pm on Wednesday.
Tensions continued to escalate between junior doctors and Jeremy Hunt today as doctors protested outside the Health Secretary's offices in Westminster at the end of the first day of a 48 hour 'all out' strike.
It came as Hunt defended his reasons for pushing ahead with introducing new changes to junior doctors' contracts saying "the total refusal of the BMA to negotiate" was being driven by forces looking at it as "a political battle with the government".
ITV News Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship reports.
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