For clinicians, operators and experts
Your experience, given a standing place in the decisions.
The Network is a verified community of clinicians and operators who convene as peers, contribute knowledge to the sector and take part in paid work that fits their history. It is open to anyone who has treated patients, run services or shaped the field, at any career stage and in any market.
Join us now. We are taking expressions of interest for the first cohort of experts.
Everything is opt-in. You set your capacity, availability and topics, and change them any time.
Registering takes about a minute. A CV or link helps but is not needed
- 40+
- clinicians and operators in the community
- 12
- specialties represented, and growing
- 500+
- years of clinical and operational experience in healthcare
- 3
- focus regions: Asia Pacific, North America and the UK
Why join The Network
Decisions about which services are funded, scaled or closed are made every week, by investors, operators and governments. The people who know those services best are not often part of that conversation, and when they are, it is usually for a single hour, with little sense of how their input was used.
The Network gives you a standing place in those decisions. You choose what you take on, your contribution is credited, and client work is paid at a rate set with the community. Your history is the asset, and verification confirms it without ranking you.
Foundry has drawn on an informal network of clinicians and operators since 2020. The Network makes it a community you can join, shape and be recognised in, alongside peers from every part of healthcare.
What membership gives you
- 1 Peers. Roundtables, method sessions and introductions across specialties and markets
- 2 A voice. Contribute knowledge and insight to policy, strategy and toolkits, credited to you if you choose
- 3 Work that fits. Paid expert calls, surveys, working groups and projects alongside Foundry teams, all opt-in
What we're building
A professional platform and space for you to seek out opportunities to apply your professional acumen to healthcare system and business problems, within our trusted community.
Who is in it
Anyone who has worked in or around healthcare, at any career stage, in any market. Verification confirms who you are and what you have done. It does not rank you.
Not sure? Submit your expression of interest anyway. You have experience and perspectives more valuable than you realise
GPs, dentists, specialists, registrars and residents
A widely sought perspective. No leadership role needed
Nurses, midwives, allied health
How care is delivered, from the professions delivering it
Practice owners and service leads
Anyone who has run a practice, ward or program
Executives, current and former
Hospital, aged care, disability, community, primary care
Funders, government, policy
People who set or administered the rules
Pharma, medtech, digital health
Commercial, medical, regulatory and product roles
Rural, remote and regional
Perspectives that are often under-represented
Retired, on leave, between roles
Your history is the asset and it does not expire
Where members are
Our focus is Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific, the US and Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Anywhere else? We accept applications from around the world
- Focus regions
- Members welcome from anywhere
Work we do together
How members contribute to client workInform policy and funding decisions
Clinicians and operators bring first-hand experience to submissions, consultations and reviews, so what has moved on the ground reaches the people who set the rules
Develop innovative corporate and service strategies
Former executives, clinicians and directors work with boards and leadership teams on service mix, workforce, growth and new operating models
Qualify clinical, operational and commercial assumptions
Members test the assumptions behind an investment, merger or expansion alongside a Foundry diligence team, from referral patterns to unit economics
Test value propositions and build practical toolkits
Working groups pressure-test new products and services with the people who would use them, and write the playbooks, benchmarks and trackers the sector asks for
How it works
You control how you appear, what you take on and what you decline. Nothing is shared with a client until you accept a specific request.
About a minute to register. We verify your roles, and nothing goes live until you approve it.
Opens our secure Microsoft form in a new tab. It asks for your name, email, role, setting, country and region, how you would like to take part, and a LinkedIn or CV link if you have one. Nothing is stored on this page.
Looking for expertise rather than joining? Request expertise
Questions we get asked
Who runs The Network?
The Network is a professional platform developed and curated by Foundry Health, a clinician-led specialist healthcare strategy and investment advisory firm with teams across the Asia Pacific, North America and the UK and headquarters in Sydney. It is owned by Foundry Health Pty Ltd.
Is The Network live now?
Yes. We have been supporting our community and network since 2020. We are now opening up opportunities, and developing new platforms and tools, for a wider network of colleagues and peers.
Is this an expert network or a professional community?
Both. As a professional community, the toolkits, briefings, sessions and working groups are what members get from each other and from Foundry. As an expert network, contributions to client work are paid; the rate is set with the community and published before the first request, with a floor set at what your time earns in practice.
How much time will it take?
Community engagement is opt-in. Opportunities to take part in other work, from short surveys and calls to working groups and projects, can be as little or as much as you opt in for, subject to availability.
I am employed full time. Can I take part?
Yes, subject to your employment terms. Conflicts are registered at sign-up so you are never routed a request you should not take.
How is my privacy and my data handled?
- Nothing about you is visible to a client until you accept a specific request
- Clinicians are never named without opting in
- No requests about your own employer or a direct competitor without your opt-in
- Calls recorded only with your consent, at the start of each call
- Data held under the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and applicable local law; CVs visible to the verification team only
- Export or delete your profile at any time
Do contributions carry clinical liability?
Calls and surveys are expert opinion and need no clinical indemnity. Where a request asks for advisory work that does, the platform arranges and pays for the cover, and you are told which kind of request it is before you accept.
Do you scrape LinkedIn?
No. We use the link you give us to verify you and read the CV or LinkedIn PDF you upload at the next step. Nothing is pulled without your consent.
Can I leave?
Yes. Delete your profile from the link in your inbox at any time. Outstanding payments are still made.
Express your interest in the founding cohort
A minute to register. Two minutes to confirm your history. Then the work starts.
Express your interest