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The Life Cleric's Disciple of Life feature improves the effect of healing spells:

Also starting at 1st level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell's level.

Does Disciple of Life apply to the healing provided by creatures summoned by spells?

For example, if the Life Cleric casts Summon Celestial and the Celestial uses its Healing Touch, would that benefit from Disciple of Life?

The same would presumably apply to spells such as Conjure Celestial (Unicorn's Healing Touch) or Conjure Woodland Beings (Dryad's Goodberry).

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The healing bonus only applies to the cleric's own healing spells

You have the relevant text right there

Also starting at 1st level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell's level.

The text explicitly refers to the cleric's own healing spells ("you"). The healing spells that summoned creatures use are theirs, not those of the cleric. When such a creature is casting a healing spell or using a healing effect such as Healing Touch (not even a spell), it is not the cleric casting or using a healing spell.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Casting the summoning spell ultimately led to a creature getting its hit points restored. Couldn't we say that the cleric used their spell to restore hit points? \$\endgroup\$
    – Guillaume F.
    May 26, 2022 at 16:02
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    \$\begingroup\$ @GuillaumeF. The summoning spell is not restoring hit points, it is summoning a creature. That creature then may be able to do many things. Maybe it would be a separate question on how direct an effect needs to be to count as an effect of a spell, but I think it would be hard to answer in general. \$\endgroup\$
    – Nobody the Hobgoblin
    May 26, 2022 at 16:36
  • \$\begingroup\$ A similar argument can be made for the Goodberry spell: the spell is not restoring hit points, it is creating a berry that heals. So why would goodberry benefit from Disciple of Life, but not a summoning spell? \$\endgroup\$
    – Guillaume F.
    May 27, 2022 at 0:19
  • \$\begingroup\$ The Sage Advice Compendium specifically says the berries benefit from Disciple of Life. \$\endgroup\$
    – Guillaume F.
    May 28, 2022 at 12:19
  • \$\begingroup\$ Related: Question on Grim Harvest \$\endgroup\$
    – Nobody the Hobgoblin
    May 29, 2022 at 4:28

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