Possible Clues:

• Pulls round firmly, to get head off - it's not coming away
• In the direction of what's in the middle of 24 across
• Approaching there in hospital
• Where patients are taken after operations, or just before
• In the direction of them in hospital, not away from them
• Where patients go in that direction
• The direction to take to where they're all so patient
• Nearing time, duck fight with gutless drunks
• Near to hospital rooms
• At