Hand over hospital department run by useless technocrats originally (7)
I believe the answer is:
entrust
'hand over' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'hospital department run by useless technocrats originally' is the wordplay.
'hospital department' becomes 'ENT' (abbreviation for Ear, Nose and Throat department).
'run' becomes 'r' (cricket abbreviation).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'useless' becomes 'us' (abbreviation for unserviceable).
'originally' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'technocrats' is 't'.
'ent'+'r'+'us'+'t'='ENTRUST'
(Other definitions for entrust that I've seen before include "Assign (a responsibility to someone)" , "Nutters (anag)" , "Commend" , "Put into someone's care" , "Consign" .)