Title of hospital with target date failing to open (8)
I believe the answer is:
headline
'title' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'hospital with target date failing to open' is the wordplay.
'hospital' becomes 'H' (abbreviation for hospital on maps).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'target date' becomes 'deadline' (date by which something must be done).
'failing to open' means to remove the first letter (the opening letter is removed).
'deadline' with its initial letter taken away is 'eadline'.
'h'+'eadline'='HEADLINE'
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for headline that I've seen before include "Top (a concert bill)" , "causing a wrinkling of the brow?" , "Writing above newspaper article" , "Caption on a newspaper article" , "Prominent text" .)