Path round university hospital in lakeside location (8)
I believe the answer is:
lausanne
'lakeside location' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'path round university hospital' is the wordplay.
'path' becomes 'lane' (lane is a kind of path).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'university' becomes 'U' (abbreviation as in UMass).
'hospital' becomes 'san' (short for sanatorium).
'u'+'san'='usan'
'lane' going around 'usan' is 'LAUSANNE'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lausanne that I've seen before include "City on Lake Geneva" , "Swiss city on L. Geneva" , "European city" , "French town" .)