| WELFARESTATE | Hurried up a stay in bed, worried for the NHS etc (7,5) |
| SHOCKTREATMENT | Complex matter OK with NHS etc? Could be ECT (5,9) |
| APOSTATE | Paul, for example, worried for the French renegade |
| LIEIN | (A) stay in bed |
| ABITONTHESIDE | Atheist in bed worried about love affair (1,3,2,3,4) |
| INEDIBLE | Lie in bed, worried ? too bad (8) |
| ANEURINBEVAN | Welsh Labour politician; Minister of Health responsible for the formation of the NHS (7,5) |
| BILLOFHEALTH | Cost to the NHS of medical certificate? (4,2,6) |
| AGGIE | Wife of Edison Bailey who works for the NHS in Corrie (5) |
| RAINBOW | Uproar about a fashionable black emblem used for the NHS |
| STRETCHER | Strong support for the NHS? (9) |
| SEVASTOPOL | A stay in digs fixed up in Black Sea resort |
| GABOR | Hungarian/US actress and celebrity famous for her rile marriages and several scandals, one of which involved a stay in Mallorca's Castillo Hotel Son Vida in 1968 (5) |
| ZSAZSA | Hungarian/US actress and celebrity famous for her rile marriages and several scandals, one of which involved a stay in Mallorca's Castillo Hotel Son Vida in 1968 (3,3) |
| ACUTECARE | This may require a stay in the ER |
| CAMP | Openly enjoy a stay in the country? (4) |
| CAMPINGOUT | Openly enjoying a stay in the country? (7,3) |
| LATECOMER | Meet Carol worried for a person missing the start (9) |
| TOWELS | Mementos of a stay in a hotel. |
| WAREHAM | As it was warm at the start of August, four of my friends arranged a stay in this hotel near Worgret (7) |