Summoning creatures with healing?

[TheGogmagog]

Well, you are the DM? You could adopt the more leinient interpretation of 'Extra Spell' or allow a version that lets you add a spell known. But there's a reason why no one wants to be the cleric, and somone learn/memorize certain spells to fill the role of cleric completely re-creates the problem.

If no one wants to be a cleric.... Don't make them. Hence the value of NPC hirling or cohort with pacifist and slow reaction flaws, plus feats that augment healing, and a wand of cure light through the first five levels or so.

I hate to harp on tangential suggestions, since I hate when people do it to me, but... It looks like you have your answer and you added 'the reason I asked' part.

 

[Thurbane]

Again I have to say, that is NOT the point of the excercise. The party I DM for already includes a cleric, as does the other group I play with.

This is basically a scholastic exercise rather than a practical one.

 

[Mistwell]

Yeah I'd say Unicorn is a pretty good option. A unicorn can use cure light wounds three times per day and cure moderate wounds once per day (caster level 5th).