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One of the things that is wrong with them is that CTOs are agreed by the clinicians in the acute hospitals. People then go out into the community, but the advocacy services are largely in the acute hospitals. Frankly, if you have been a patient in an acute hospital and you do not have to go back, why would you? Therefore, most people do not, and are not willing to, go back into the hospital to get advocacy services, but they are entitled to have them. The noble Baroness has already talked about the role of advocacy in the process of renewal.