An amputee spent a week in a hospital bed in "excruciating" pain before his broken hip was discovered.

Jeffrey Drake said he was in agony for seven days after having a fit and falling, which led to him being admitted to Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Mr Drake, of Wibsey, had his right leg amputated above the knee last year and believes that medication he took for it at the beginning of August caused him to fit.

Mr Drake's partner Wendy Witheridge said: "I managed to keep hold of him while he was having the fit and put him on the floor but he struggled to get back up so I think he might have hurt his hip then.

"He went to BRI because of the pain in his lower back and at the top of his stump.

"He told the staff there about the pain but he was given a chest x-ray and various blood tests but nothing was done about the pain in his stump or back. They finally did an x-ray on Monday and saw the fracture.

"I am really upset about this - it has been awful to watch him in pain and to be ignored when I kept telling them where the pain was."

But Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs BRI, contests the claim, saying staff had given top priority to detecting and treating potentially life-threatening illnesses.

Mr Drake, who was given painkillers while the tests were done, said: "My actual treatment has been fine in here but someone should have spotted the problem with my hip.

"I told them where the pain was. It was excruciating and you would think it was obvious what was wrong. Every time they moved me I screamed out in agony.

"The fact I had acute leg and back pain was logged on my notes but it took a week to find what the problem was."

Mrs Witheridge complained to the ward staff on behalf of Mr Drake, who will now make a formal complaint.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said today there had been no delay in performing an x-ray to spot the fracture.

It added that all diagnostic and treatment work had followed an agreed and prioritised programme of care, although Mr Drake denies agreeing to a programme of treatment.

A spokesman for the trust said: "At the outset, we agreed a plan of treatment - coupled with a timetable for delivering it - in partnership with the patient.

"The agreed priority was to identify and treat potentially life-threatening conditions that were concerning us and, in liaison with the patient, this is clearly where we focused our efforts.

"Once these tests had been completed, and we were entirely satisfied we could rule out these risks, we carried out an x-ray as the next stage in the agreed care plan of action. This was carried out on time.

"This detected a fracture to the hip and he is now being treated accordingly by our specialist team of orthopaedics with appropriate pain relief and bed rest, the appropriate course of treatment in this case. He is progressing well."

But Mr Drake said: "I never agreed to any procedure of treatment. They didn't give me any format of what would happen."

He will now stay in hospital for the next three weeks and has been told that if his condition does not improve in that time he will undergo a hip replacement operation.