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on your own computer, verify that it can run against real data, and publish it
to GitHub.

To write a real study and run it against actual patient data, you will first
need to get permission for your project from NHS England, the data controllers
for OpenSAFELY's data. [Read about our pilot onboarding programme](https://www.opensafely.org/onboarding-new-users/). Once approved, your
GitHub user account will be added to our `opensafely` GitHub organisation, along
with your study repository, which gives you the ability to run your study
against real data. [Read more about permissions](jobs-site.md#permissions).
To write a real study and run it against actual patient data, you will first need to get permission for your project from the data controllers for the NHS England OpenSAFELY COVID-19 service.
[Read about our pilot onboarding programme](https://www.opensafely.org/onboarding-new-users/).
Once approved, your GitHub user account will be added to our `opensafely` GitHub organisation, along with your study repository, which gives you the ability to run your study against real data. [Read more about permissions](jobs-site.md#permissions).

In the meantime, take a look at the rest of our documentation for more
detail on the subjects covered in this tutorial. For example:
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## Who is OpenSAFELY?

OpenSAFELY is a collaboration between the [Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science](https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/) at the University of Oxford, the EHR group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, TPP and other electronic health record software companies (who already manage NHS patients' records), working on behalf of NHS England and NHSX.
OpenSAFELY is a collaboration between the [Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science](https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/) at the University of Oxford, the EHR group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, TPP and other electronic health record software companies (who already manage NHS patients' records), working on behalf of NHS England.

## Using OpenSAFELY

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