In favour of divisions of hospital strikers (8)
I believe the answer is:
forwards
'strikers' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'in favour of divisions of hospital' is the wordplay.
'in favour of' becomes 'for' (being for a particular cause).
'divisions of hospital' becomes 'wards' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for'+'wards'='FORWARDS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for forwards that I've seen before include "Attacking players" , "In the normal sequence" , "attackers" , "Football players" , "Facing towards the front" .)