Many users might not feel encouraged to go through the formality of making an advance statement in accordance with the requirements of section 187 if that statement can be overridden at the discretion of professionals and service users have no way of challenging those decisions.In talking about safeguards for ECT, the minister said:"The treating doctor must also take proper account of any advance statement by the patient, and we intend to add provisions that would impose a similar requirement on the doctor who supplies the second opinion."—Official...