Bermuda and Marlow partnership run Shakespeare House Medical Centre in Popley. A senior GP has said that social media rumours claiming the proposed merger between two surgeries in Basingstoke had collapsed are not true. Dr Matt Nisbet, associate clinical director at the Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group, the organisation responsible for GP services, has quashed rumours that the planned takeover of Shakespeare Road Medical Practice had fallen through. It comes after the surgery was forced to temporarily close its doors to patients last Wednesday. Reports on social media suggested that the planned takeover of the practice, first revealed by The Gazette in November 2020, had collapsed, resulting in the practice losing its medical licence and not being able to see patients.