Certificate renewal on series 4, 5 and 6 smartcards (Gemplus, JCOP41 & JCOP 41) will no longer be available from 31 January 2025.

Removing older smartcards will allow us to remove the requirement for Gemalto middleware from the service. This middleware causes significant issues for organisations and removing it will simplify smartcard operations including issuance, certificate renewal and Registration Authority unlock.

It’s planned that authentication with these smartcards will no longer be available after 30 April 2025 at the latest.

More information

For full details of what we’re doing and why, read this deprecation notice.

If plans change between now and the dates shown above we’ll update this page and the deprecation page.

Contact us

If you have any questions, contact us at iamplatforms@nhs.net