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From August to September 2022, a questionnaire related to the capabilities and workload in the accelerator-based BNCT was administered to 12 physicians, 7 medical physicists and 7 radiological technologists engaged in BNCT and 6 other medical physicists who were not engaged in BNCT to compare the results acquired by those engaged in BNCT. Only 6\u201321% of patients referred for BNCT received it. Furthermore, 30\u201375% of patients who received BNCT were treated at facilities located within their local district. The median required workload per treatment was 55\u00a0h. Considering additional workloads for ineligible patients, the required workload reached ~1.2 times longer than those for only eligible patients\u2019 treatment. With respect to capabilities, discrepancies were observed in treatment planning, quality assurance and quality control, and commissioning between medical physicists and radiological technologists. 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