Abstract
The text sets the goal of communicating to the Czech healthcare professionals and care organisers a British strategic document and guidelines concerning the use of restrictive interventions. In the Czech environment, restraining measures are defined as allowed for cases of imminent danger to the life, health or safety of the patient himself or herself or of other persons, by the respective healthcare law.
The law is augmented by the methodical measures of the Ministry of Healthcare, we lack however a document that would reach the width and convincingness of the guidelines entitled "Positive and Proactive Care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions". The guidelines are exceptionally inspiring in terms of focus on prevention of use of restrains, while still securing the patient and the healthcare straff, in terms of transparency of the relevant procedures employed by the healthcare providers and in terms of demanding scrutiny and an active approach towards lowreing the need to use restraints.
The text focuses on the measures introduced by the guidelines that are missed the most in the Czech context, along with the context in which they were developer in the year 2014.