While nurses in this study demonstrated generally positive attitude to survivorship care for haematological cancer patients, this study has highlighted discrepancies between role perception, practice, and the IOM recommendations that reflect potentially important barriers to providing coordinated, comprehensive survivorship care. In particular, areas of practice that were implemented less frequently and were seen to be less important by nurses, highlight what may be critical gaps if these aspects of care are not adequately addressed by other members of the health care team. Health service providers need to clearly delineate whose role it is to provide various aspects of survivorship care, so that all aspects of care are attended to (King et al., 2008). The IOM recommends that comprehensive care plans be made available to oncologists, PHC providers, nurses and patients to overcome these challenges. It is recommended that such care plans should consist of a schedule of follow-up appointments, strategies to manage the consequences of cancer and its treatment, health promotion strategies, referral pathways and a list of supportive services (Hewitt et al., 2005; Lotfi-Jam et al., 2009). Based on the findings of this study, nurses may be well placed to coordinate the development ofsuch care plans in collaboration with other members of the health care team.