Christian managed to follow instrument outside hospital (8)
I believe the answer is:
lutheran
'christian' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'managed to follow instrument outside hospital' is the wordplay.
'managed' becomes 'ran' (both can mean organised or was in charge of).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'follow instrument' becomes 'lute' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'outside' indicates putting letters inside (some letters go outside others).
'hospital' becomes 'H' (abbreviation for hospital).
'lute' going around 'h' is 'luthe'.
'ran' put after 'luthe' is 'LUTHERAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lutheran that I've seen before include "German Protestant" , "Type of Protestant" , "Protestant church member" , "Of the Protestant Reformation" , "it could be Bach" .)