The government will return to the negotiating table today in an effort to resolve their long-running dispute over contracts for junior doctors.
The British Medical Association will hold fresh talks after Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt agreed to a five-day pause in the imposition of the new contracts.
Dr Johann Malawana, chairman of the BMA's junior doctors committee, said he hoped "real progress can now be made to ending this dispute".
Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed the re-opening of negotiations over a new junior doctors contract - but said both sides need to focus on the remaining issues which have not been agreed.
It comes after health ministers offered to "pause" imposition of the contract and to reopen talks on all "outstanding issues" - including Saturday pay - if the BMA agreed to halt discussions of possible future strike action.
He urged health ministers and the BMA to focus "not on the 90 per cent of things which have been agreed, but focus very much on the 10 per cent of things that haven't been agreed".
In particular, he said, this included the issue of Saturday working.
The chairman of the Junior Doctors' Committee said he hoped "real progress can be made to ending this dispute".
Senior medical staff have urged junior doctors and the Government to break the deadlock over the medics' long-running contract dispute.