District hospital to the east of capital (6)
I believe the answer is:
parish
'district' is the definition.
(parish is a kind of district)
'hospital to the east of capital' is the wordplay.
'hospital' becomes 'h'.
'to the east of' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'capital' becomes 'paris' (Paris is an example**).
'h' put after 'paris' is 'PARISH'.
(Other definitions for parish that I've seen before include "quarter" , "District within county" , "Unit of local government" , "area known to clergyman" , "Area within diocese with own church" .)