Last Spring during the peak of the pandemic it seemed like there was a news story almost every other day about the latest doctor or nurse (often from the BAME community) who had died from Covid. As far as I can remember there hasn't been a single death among frontline staff reported so far this Autumn/Winter despite the fact that hospitals are reported as treating almost as many Covid patients. (Sometimes what isn't reported is more revealing than what is reported.) I find this very strange and can think of 2 possible explanations:-
The NHS failed it's staff in the Spring by not providing PPE and/or ensuring that vunerable staff were reassigned away from Covid wards.
There are currently far fewer Covid patients in hospital, and most patients labelled as having Covid actually have a false positive test result.
Can anyone with frontline experience shed any light on this?

You make an excellent point! This has also perplexed me. As someone who is very sceptical about the true prevalence of covid-19, I really should have put these two points together as you have in your second explanation. I think this more likely than the first explanation.
I don't know how one could get insight into what is happening here.

Perhaps I can volunteer a more brutal and cold-hearted explanation as postulated by Michael Levitt (Nobel biochemistry) and others:

The "first wave", like a storm blowing through a forest, is liable to knock down the weaker trees. Subsequent blasts will knock fewer, if any, because the ones left standing after the first storm are the fitter.

Also, on a different but related point, let us keep in mind the NHS employs something like 1.5 million people! It is by far the largest employee in the UK - and probably in Europe. It is well into the top 10 worldwide, surpassed only by organisations such as the US Pentagon and the People's Liberation Army of China. The "losses" within the NHS should thus appear as evidence of how relatively weak covid19 is, and how successfully the NHS has dealt with it. A truly deadly contagion would have killed 100s if not 1000s of frontline medical staff.

There are currently far fewer Covid patients in hospital, and most patients labelled as having Covid actually have a false positive test result.

Do you really believe this?

There are currently far fewer Covid patients in hospital, and most patients labelled as having Covid actually have a false positive test result.

Do you really believe this?

I expect he does - and I expect he means patients who have been admitted due to covid rather than a) those who have incidentally tested positive when admitted for other reasons, b) the 25% or so of those who acquire a positive test while in hospital.

The problem is that all these are conflated and called 'covid patients'. It is scandalous and a gross misrepresentation of what is actually going on.