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The Primary Care Individual Social Norms MSK Data Dashboard (PRISM) dashboard gives FCPs feedback on their clinical activity relative to their peers to support reflection toward improving MSK care.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n This study aimed to co-design the metrics, filters, and guidance content of the PRISM dashboard and guidebook to reflect evidence-based practice and the real-world context of FCP roles, and apply a critical realist approach to identify the mechanisms and conditions shaping its design.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n This qualitative co-design study used a modified nominal group process across 2 online workshops in June and August 2025, with 10 purposively sampled participants: clinical FCPs, national physiotherapy and data leaders, and a patient representative. Two analytic strands were applied to the same data. The consensus process produced the metric set and filters. Critical realist thematic analysis of the transcripts using NVivo (version 12 Plus; QSR International), with line-by-line coding using inductive and a priori codes, identified the conditions shaping how those metrics would need to be interpreted.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Participants reached consensus on a core metric set describing the breadth of the FCP role, separating variation generated by clinical decisions from variation generated by structure such as local diagnostic access, prescribing rights, and referral pathways. Contextual filters were co-designed at patient, clinician, and service level to keep structure visible. Supervision emerged as a condition surrounding the dashboard rather than a component, since the same comparison prompts reflection where role clarity and psychological safety are present and defensiveness where they are not. A tool dependent on supervision would work least well where support is weakest. This means that an option for stand-alone use is a design requirement. Three data integrity risks were identified: recording reliability, data gaming, and clinician burden. The guidebook enables these conditions to be transferred into practice, with separate guidance for FCPs and supervisors and a 4-step reflection structure.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Expert co-design produced a metric set describing the breadth of the role while accommodating variation between services and acknowledging the conditions under which PRISM can function as intended. This paper moves from the national position that FCP services collect data to a specification of the conditions under which collecting data produces learning. 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