A cardiologist at Leeds General Infirmary has said data used to justify stopping children's heart surgery at the hospital was "incorrect, inaccurate and shouldn't have been used."
The hospital, which is involved in a long-running row over the future of its children's heart services, is carrying out an internal review after figures suggested a death rate twice the national average.
But Dr John Thomson told Sky News the data was far from complete.
"I have grave doubts that these figures are accurate and I certainly don't think that they were in a form that was anywhere close to being usable in this environment," he said.
"I think that's the key issue here, is that the information is probably incorrect, inaccurate and in a form that almost certainly shouldn't have been used.
It is claimed only 180 operations out of more than 300 in the unit were considered in the figures.
Dr Thomson's comments came as campaigners, led by the Archbishop of York, gathered at the hospital's children's cardiology unit.
Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu said he had returned after a previous visit two months ago.
"Everybody was on task, everybody was committed (to) the wellbeing of children," he told Sky News.
"Then you get this big bombshell. No further operations, because there is a report which alleges a number of things.
"Then you hear that the three so-called whistle-blowers were the ones who were involved in the original decision to close this unit.
"What's going on? I just wanted to find out for myself."
Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of NHS England, has insisted the data was among a "constellation of reasons" to suspend operations.
He said he also received "disturbing" calls from two whistle-blowers and that there had been "rumblings" among the cardiac surgical community for some time that "all was not well" in Leeds.
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