Story about hospital department? Daughter's gifted (8)
I believe the answer is:
talented
'gifted' is the definition.
('talented' can be a synonym of 'gifted')
'story about hospital department? daughter's' is the wordplay.
'story' becomes 'tale' ('tale' can be a synonym of 'story').
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hospital department?' becomes 'ent'.
'daughter' becomes 'd'.
'tale' going around 'ent' is 'talente'.
'talente'+'d'='TALENTED'
(Other definitions for talented that I've seen before include "Clever" , "Well-endowed with gifts" , "Able" , "Having an unusual amount of ability" , "Naturally gifted" .)