Event in Met and NHS departments (8)
I believe the answer is:
incident
'event' is the definition.
(incident is a kind of event)
'in met and nhs departments' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'in' is present in the answer.
'and' could be 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and') and 'n' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for incident that I've seen before include "Event, occurence" , "Happening (often of a criminal nature)" , "Event found ten in CID mix-up" , "is liable to occur" , "Distinct event" .)