The CEO presents his new organisational structure, shown here as a Venn diagram.

A cat is out of its bag. Not Kevin, the actual cat – he can’t get through Kevlar sacking – but metaphorically speaking.

There’s a book out called ‘Where there is no psychiatrist’. Though the phrase ‘developing world’ occurs somewhere in the description, and the front cover depicts a place where people carry water in stone jars on their heads, so probably not Mexborough, in actual fact this manual is meant for Britain itself. There is no psychiatrist in your town or mine. That fellow with the beard is just a hipster. That guy with the carefully-crafted-designer-vagrancy look you admired so much is just a vagrant. Though some people are pretending otherwise, for better or for worse, mental health is going DIY.

There are exactly ten reasons for this:

• Very few new doctors are choosing psychiatry as a speciality
• A lot of psychiatrists are retiring to open artisan cheese shops
• Psychiatrists who don’t use a medical model are more expensive than social workers
• Psychiatrists who use a medical model aren’t cool enough at parties
• Psychiatrists have to wear a T shirt that says ‘in case of disaster I am to blame’
• People have noticed that the NICE guidelines for mental illnesses are the same ones for every single disorder
• Illegal drug dealers have got more and better new drugs than we have in the NHS
• Maplin have got more and better electrical treatments than we have in the NHS
• The GMC now require you to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest, with a herring, in order to get revalidated
• Conspiracy theorists have stolen all our best delusions

Now that we have youtube to show us how to do every task, the main constraints on DIY are statutory regulations rather than not knowing how to do things. But where there are severe penalties for unauthorised gas fitting, there is no penalty at all for pretending to be a mindfulness therapist, or for lighting candles in people’s ears.

Surely, before we start selling prozac and zyprexa in Poundland, before we legalise ketamine, before we hang special magnets from our earlobes, there should be youtube videos on how to interpret evidence and follow logic? No mate – this is England. No-one likes an expert round here.